chroot

English

Etymology

From the name of the Unix command, short for “change root”.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɹuːt/

Verb

chroot (third-person singular simple present chroots, present participle chrooting, simple past and past participle chrooted)

1. (computing, Unix) To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
   • 2004, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling, High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, Load Balancing & More, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 235:

     Running a server in a chrooted environment greatly enhances overall system security on a Unix system.

Anagrams

• cohort, rootch, trocho-