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chroot

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run command or interactive shell with special root directory

Administration and privileged commands5 optionscoreutils 9.7-3
chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...] chroot OPTION

Options

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--groupsG_LIST

specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN

--userspecUSER

specify user and group (ID or name) to use

--skip-chdir

do not change working directory to '/'

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

DESCRIPTION

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN
specify user and group (ID or name) to use
do not change working directory to '/'
display this help and exit
output version information and exit

If no command is given, run '"$SHELL" -i' (default: '/bin/sh -i').

125
if the chroot command itself fails
126
if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
127
if COMMAND cannot be found
-
the exit status of COMMAND otherwise

AUTHOR

Written by Roland McGrath.

REPORTING BUGS

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See also

chroot(2)