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-.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "25 August 2002" "Privoxy 3.0.0" ""
+.TH "PRIVOXY" "1" "25 March 2003" "Privoxy 3.0.2" ""
.SH NAME
privoxy \- Privacy Enhancing Proxy
.SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBprivoxy\fR [\fB--help\fR ] [\fB--version\fR ] [\fB--no-daemon\fR ] [\fB--pidfile \fIpidfile\fB\fR ] [\fB--user \fIuser[.group]\fB\fR ] [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR ]\fB (UNIX)\fR
+\fBprivoxy\fR [\fB--help\fR ] [\fB--version\fR ] [\fB--no-daemon\fR ] [\fB--pidfile \fIpidfile\fB\fR ] [\fB--user \fIuser[.group]\fB\fR ] [\fB--chroot\fR ] [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR ]\fB (UNIX)\fR
\fBprivoxy.exe\fR [\fB\fIconfigfile\fB\fR ]\fB (Windows)\fR
\fB--pidfile \fIpidfile\fB\fR
On startup, write the process ID to \fIpidfile\fR.
Delete the \fIpidfile\fR on exit.
-Failiure to create or delete the \fIpidfile\fR
+Failure to create or delete the \fIpidfile\fR
is non-fatal. If no \fB--pidfile\fR option is given, no PID file will be used.
.TP
\fB--user \fIuser[.group]\fB\fR
\fIgroup\fR was not given, the default group of
\fIuser\fR. Exit if the privileges are not
sufficient to do so.
+.TP
+\fB--chroot\fR
+Before changing to the user ID given in the --user option, chroot to
+that user's home directory, i.e. make the kernel pretend to the
+\fBPrivoxy\fR process that the directory tree starts
+there. If set up carefully, this can limit the impact of possible
+vulnerabilities in \fBPrivoxy\fR to the files contained in
+that hierarchy.
.PP
If the \fIconfigfile\fR is not specified on the command line,
\fBPrivoxy\fR will look for a file named
.SH "DEVELOPMENT TEAM"
.nf
+ Hal Burgiss (docs)
Jon Foster
Andreas Oesterhelt
- Stefan Waldherr
- Thomas Steudten
- Rodney Stromlund
+ David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
+
+ Johny Agotnes
Rodrigo Barbosa (RPM specfiles)
Moritz Barsnick
- Hal Burgiss (docs)
+ Mattes Dolak
Karsten Hopp (Red Hat)
Alexander Lazic
+ Daniel Leite
Gábor Lipták
- Guy
+ Adam Lock (Win32)
+ Guy Laroche
Haroon Rafique
Roland Rosenfeld (Debian)
Georg Sauthoff (Gentoo)
- David Schmidt (OS/2, Mac OSX ports)
+ Thomas Steudten
Joerg Strohmayer (Amiga)
+ Rodney Stromlund
+ Sviatoslav Sviridov
Sarantis Paskalis
+ Stefan Waldherr
.fi
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.SS "COPYRIGHT"
.PP
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 by Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
+Copyright (C) 2001 - 2003 by Privoxy Developers <developers@privoxy.org>
.PP
Some source code is based on code Copyright (C) 1997 by Anonymous Coders
and Junkbusters, Inc. and licensed under the \fIGNU General Public