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37 .Nd change root directory
42 .Op Fl G Ar group,group,...
48 command changes its root directory to the supplied directory
52 if supplied, or an interactive copy of your shell.
59 options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are
60 set to these values after the chroot has taken place. See
70 or the shell are run as your real-user-id.
72 The following environment variable is referenced by
77 the string specified by
79 is interpreted as the name of
94 utility first appeared in
96 .Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
98 should never be installed setuid root, as it would then be possible
99 to exploit the program to gain root privileges.