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¶
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'
