CHROOT(8) BSD System Manager's Manual CHROOT(8)NAMEchroot — change root directory
SYNOPSISchroot [-u user] [-g group] [-G group,group,...] newroot [command]
DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility changes its current and root directories to the sup‐
plied directory newroot and then exec's command, if supplied, or an
interactive copy of the user's login shell.
If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of
the process are set to these values after the chroot(8) has taken place.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is referenced by chroot:
SHELL If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name
of the shell to exec. If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh
is used.
SEE ALSOchdir(2), chroot(2), setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3),
environ(7), jail(8)HISTORY
The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.
BSD June 7, 2003 BSD