man chrootuid (Commandes) - chrootuid - run command in restricted environment
NAME
chrootuid - run command in restricted environment
SYNOPSIS
chrootuid [-i] 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.
OPTIONS
There is only one option for chrootuid: -i. That option makes it run in interactive mode. Errors will be printed on stderr instead of through syslog and the exit status will be 1 if there are any errors.
DIAGNOSTICS
If chrootuid has a problem the exit status is 0 when when chrootuid is running on daemon mode (default), if running on interactive mode the exit status will be 1. Otherwise the exit status is the exit status of command.
SEE ALSO
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
Sun Nov 20 16:24:06 CET 2005
VERSION/RELEASE
1.3