From: Jim Meyering Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 06:58:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: List two systems on which chroot works when run by non-root. X-Git-Tag: v6.9.89~80 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8cd8d524ccec3e56431596f0cc647724e7192ae;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git List two systems on which chroot works when run by non-root. --- diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 66f223b29f..5043a8f278 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-10-05 Jim Meyering + + * coreutils.texi (chroot invocation): List two systems on which + chroot works when run by non-root. + 2007-09-19 Jim Meyering * coreutils.texi (expr invocation): Correct description of relative diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 46f1fd935e..f27c6c5278 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