chroot
run command or interactive shell with special root directory
- Provided by: coreutils (Version: 8.28-1ubuntu1)
- Report a bug
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 © 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.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'