chroot(8)

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

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