CHROOT
Section: User Commands (8)
Updated: October 2015
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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
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specify user and group (ID or name) to use
- --groups=G_LIST
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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
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report chroot translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'
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