chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory
chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...] chroot OPTION
CHROOT(1) User Commands CHROOT(1)
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').
AUTHOR
Written by Roland McGrath.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report chroot translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <http://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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
chroot(2)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core-
utils-8.27.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils.
GNU coreutils 8.27 March 2017 CHROOT(1)