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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4 | .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted | |
| 5 | .\" provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are | |
| 6 | .\" duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, | |
| 7 | .\" advertising materials, and other materials related to such | |
| 8 | .\" distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed | |
| 9 | .\" by the University of California, Berkeley. The name of the | |
| 10 | .\" University may not be used to endorse or promote products derived | |
| 11 | .\" from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| 12 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR | |
| 13 | .\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED | |
| 14 | .\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" @(#)chroot.8 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| 17 | .\" | |
| 18 | .TH CHROOT 8 "" | |
| 19 | .UC 6 | |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | chroot \- change root directory | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | .B chroot newroot [ command ] | |
| 24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 25 | The | |
| 26 | .I chroot | |
| 27 | command changes its root directory to the supplied directory | |
| 28 | .I newroot | |
| 29 | and exec's | |
| 30 | .IR command , | |
| 31 | if supplied, or an interactive copy of your shell (as specified | |
| 32 | by the environmental variable | |
| 33 | .IR SHELL ) | |
| 34 | if not. | |
| 35 | .I /bin/sh | |
| 36 | is used if | |
| 37 | .I SHELL | |
| 38 | is not specified. | |
| 39 | .PP | |
| 40 | Note, | |
| 41 | .I command | |
| 42 | or the shell are run as your real-user-id. | |
| 43 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 44 | chdir(2), chroot(2), environ(7) |