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| b42074ab | 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. |
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2 | .\" All rights reserved. |
| 3 | .\" | |
| 4a46eaab | 4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.man% |
| a01ced3e | 5 | .\" |
| b42074ab | 6 | .\" @(#)chroot.8 5.3 (Berkeley) %G% |
| a01ced3e | 7 | .\" |
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8 | .Dd |
| 9 | .Dt CHROOT 8 | |
| 10 | .Os BSD 4.3 | |
| 11 | .Sh NAME | |
| 12 | .Nm chroot | |
| 13 | .Nd change root directory | |
| 14 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
| 15 | .Nm chroot | |
| 16 | .Ar newroot | |
| 17 | .Op Ar command | |
| 18 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| a01ced3e | 19 | The |
| b42074ab | 20 | .Nm chroot |
| a01ced3e | 21 | command changes its root directory to the supplied directory |
| b42074ab | 22 | .Ar newroot |
| a01ced3e | 23 | and exec's |
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24 | .Ar command , |
| 25 | if supplied, or an interactive copy of your shell. | |
| 26 | .Pp | |
| a01ced3e | 27 | Note, |
| b42074ab | 28 | .Ar command |
| a01ced3e | 29 | or the shell are run as your real-user-id. |
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30 | .Sh ENVIRONMENT |
| 31 | The following environment variable is referenced by | |
| 32 | .Nm chroot : | |
| 33 | .Bl -tag -width SHELL | |
| 34 | .It Ev SHELL | |
| 35 | If set, | |
| 36 | the string specified by | |
| 37 | .Ev SHELL | |
| 38 | is interpreted as the name of | |
| 39 | the shell to exec. | |
| 40 | If the variable | |
| 41 | .Ev SHELL | |
| 42 | is not set, | |
| 43 | .Pa /bin/sh | |
| 44 | is used. | |
| 45 | .El | |
| 46 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 47 | .Xr chdir 2 , | |
| 48 | .Xr chroot 2 , | |
| 49 | .Xr environ 7 | |
| 50 | .Sh HISTORY | |
| 51 | The | |
| 52 | .Nm | |
| 53 | command | |
| 54 | .Ud |