schroot ======= 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 ------------------ An ISO C++ compiler supporting TR1 (e.g. GCC 4.x), 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 GIT, you will also need: gettext (0.16) doxygen Translation ----------- 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 ------------------------- 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 ------------- See schroot.conf(5) and schroot-setup(5). Running ------- See schroot(1).