chroot
verb/t͡ʃɹuːt/
Etymology From the name of the Unix command, short for “change root”.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Unix To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
- Running a server in a chrooted environment greatly enhances overall system security on a Unix system.2004, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, Load Balancing & More, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 235: