CHROOT(1) User Commands CHROOT(1)
NAME
chroot – run command or interactive shell with special root directory
SYNOPSIS
chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]…]
chroot OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.
–userspec=USER:GROUP
specify user and group (ID or name) to use
–groups=G_LIST
specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN
–help display this help and exit
–version
output version information and exit
If no command is given, run ‘${SHELL} -i’ (default: ‘/bin/sh -i’).
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AUTHOR
Written by Roland McGrath.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
chroot(2)
The full documentation for chroot is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and chroot programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils ‘chroot invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.
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GNU coreutils 8.23 December 2014 CHROOT(1)