schroot
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Securely enter a chroot and run a command or login shell.

Note that giving untrusted users root access to chroots is a serious
security risk!.  Although the untrusted user will only have root
access to files inside the chroot, in practice there are many obvious
ways of breaking out of the chroot and of disrupting services on the
host system.  As always, this boils down to trust.  Don't give chroot
root access to users you would not trust with root access to the host
system.

For compatibility with existing tools and scripts, wrapper binaries
for dchroot and DSA dchroot are provided.


Build Dependencies
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An ISO C++ compiler supporting TR1 (e.g. GCC 4.0), or an ISO C++
compiler and the Boost libraries
libstdc++ (GNU libstdc++)
libpam0g-dev (Linux-PAM)
liblockdev1-dev
libboost-dev                 }
libboost-program-options-dev } The Boost C++ libraries
libboost-regex-dev           }
uuid-dev (e2fsprogs)

If building from Subversion, you will also need:
gettext (0.15)
doxygen


Translation
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If you would like to see the schroot messages output in your own
language, please consider translating the pot file (po/schroot.pot).


Building and installation
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Please see the INSTALL file for generic installation instructions.
Note that the testsuite ("make check") should be run under fakeroot or
real root in order to work correctly.  There are the following
additional options:

  --enable-dchroot:      Build dchroot.
  --enable-dchroot-dsa:  Build DSA dchroot
  --enable-debug:        Enable debugging features (not recommended)


Configuration
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See schroot.conf(5) and schroot-setup(5).


Running
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See schroot(1).