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chroot (1g)

Name

chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory

Synopsis

chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]
chroot OPTION

Description




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').

AUTHOR
     Written by Roland McGrath.

REPORTING BUGS
     Report chroot bugs to [email protected]
     GNU  coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
     utils/>
     General help using GNU  software:  <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
     elp/>
     Report  chroot  translation  bugs to <http://translationpro-
     ject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2012 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  redis-
     tribute  it.   There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
     by law.


ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5)  for  descriptions   of   the   following
     attributes:





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     +---------------+--------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
     +---------------+--------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
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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.



NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz

     Further information about this software can be found on  the
     open  source  community  website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
     ware/coreutils/.


























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