CHROOTUID(1)                General Commands Manual               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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