CHROOT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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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: 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).

AUTHOR

Written by Roland McGrath.

REPORTING BUGS

Report chroot bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009 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.