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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-10-05 08:58:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2007-10-05 09:03:42 +0200 |
| commit | f8cd8d524ccec3e56431596f0cc647724e7192ae (patch) | |
| tree | ea45d8708e0abd3e71c88d15b17b1a1af117a05f /doc | |
| parent | 43d0c30bf0b4cf722aa0debb12c552f822387f4c (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-f8cd8d524ccec3e56431596f0cc647724e7192ae.tar.xz | |
List two systems on which chroot works when run by non-root.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 66f223b29..5043a8f27 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -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 |