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.

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