chroot (8) Linux Manual Page

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‘).

Author

Written by Roland McGrath.

Reporting Bugs

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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 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.

See Also

chroot(2)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) chroot invocation’