Section 1 · User commands

chroot.1

Package: coreutils-common

CHROOT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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. **
−−groups**=G_LIST

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

−−userspec=USER:GROUP

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

If no command is given, run ’“$SHELL” −i’ (default: ’/bin/sh −i’).

Exit status:


	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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.