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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-10-05 08:58:22 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2007-10-05 09:03:42 +0200
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downloadcoreutils-f8cd8d524ccec3e56431596f0cc647724e7192ae.tar.xz
List two systems on which chroot works when run by non-root.
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-10-05 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
+
+ * coreutils.texi (chroot invocation): List two systems on which
+ chroot works when run by non-root.
+
2007-09-19 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
* coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Correct description of relative
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 46f1fd935..f27c6c527 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -13203,7 +13203,11 @@ user, etc.
@cindex root directory, running a program in a specified
@command{chroot} runs a command with a specified root directory.
-On many systems, only the super-user can do this.
+On many systems, only the super-user can do this.@footnote{However,
+some systems (e.g., FreeBSD) can be configured to allow certain regular
+users to use the @code{chroot} system call, and hence to run this program.
+Also, on Cygwin, anyone can run the @command{chroot} command, because the
+underlying function is non-privileged due to lack of support in MS-Windows.}
Synopses:
@example