CHROOTUID 8 


 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