CHROOTUID(1) CHROOTUID(1)
NAME
chrootuid - run command in restricted environment
SYNOPSIS
chrootuid newroot newuser command...
DESCRIPTION
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.
DIAGNOSTICS
The exit status is 1 when chrootuid has a problem, otherwise the exit
status is the exit status of command.
SEE ALSO
chroot(8), su(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
Problems are reported to the syslog daemon.
AUTHOR(S)
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
CREATION DATE
Tue Oct 13 11:37:29 MET 1992
LAST MODIFICATION
Wed Jul 25 11:25:08 EDT 2001
VERSION/RELEASE
1.3
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