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chroot

v(uutils coreutils) 0.1.0

Options

--groups=<GROUP1,GROUP2...>

chroot-help-groups

--userspec=<USER:GROUP>

chroot-help-userspec

--skip-chdir

chroot-help-skip-chdir

Examples

Run command as new root directory:

sudo chroot {{path/to/new/root}} {{command}}

Use a specific user and group:

sudo chroot --userspec {{username_or_id:group_name_or_id}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.