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CHROOTUID(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual CHROOTUID(8)

chrootuid - run command in restricted environment

chrootuid newroot newuser command...


The chrootuid command sets up a restricted environment for executing command. Access to the file system is restricted to the newroot subtree; privileges are restricted to those of the newuser account (which must be a known account in the unrestricted environment). The initial working directory is changed to newroot.

chrootuid combines chroot(8) and su(1) into one program, so that there is no need to have commands such as /usr/bin/su in the restricted environment.

Only the superuser can use the chrootuid command.


The exit status is 1 when chrootuid has a problem, otherwise the exit status is the exit status of command.

chroot(8), su(1)


Problems are reported to the syslog daemon.

Wietse Venema
Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
IBM T.J. Watson Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

Tue Oct 13 11:37:29 MET 1992

Wed Jul 25 11:25:08 EDT 2001

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