Chroot

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  chroot
       
           The {UNIX} command to make the {root
          directory} (/) become something other than its default for the
          lifetime of the current process.  It can only be run by
          privileged users and is used to give a process (commonly a


          network server such as {FTP} or {HTTP}) access to a restricted
          portion of the {file system}.
       
          The new root contains copies of all the essential files and
          directories, e.g. /lib, /dev/tty, /tmp.
       
          (1996-12-08)