chrootuid1
Run command in restricted environment
Usage
chrootuid newroot
newuser
command ...
Overview
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.
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
Releases
12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 3 times.