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Bug#: 44700
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Assigned To: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Gabriel Ebner <ge@gabrielebner.at>
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dchroot-0.08.ebuild The ebuild for dchroot-0.08 text/plain Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-14 14:41 0000 459 bytes Details
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Description:   Opened: 2004-03-14 14:40 0000 
dchroot is debian's tool to enter chroots.

It solely depends on glibc, though it needs help2man to build.

Reproducible: Always
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------- Comment #1 From Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-14 14:41:01 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=27366) [edit]
The ebuild for dchroot-0.08

------- Comment #2 From solar 2004-03-14 20:41:03 0000 ------- 
SRC_URI="mirror://debian/pool/main/d/dchroot/dchroot_${PV}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.debian.org/"

This does not tell us much of what it does.
Could you explain this tool in a little more detail and how/why it would be 
ideal to use on a Gentoo system?

------- Comment #3 From Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-15 10:32:53 0000 ------- 
It greatly simplifies entering a chroot.  You no longer have to su to root,
enter the chroot and become an ordinary user again.  You can just type dchroot
-c name-of-the-chroot sh -l and you are in the chroot as the user you were
before on the host system.

Furthermore you don't have to enter a password in order to enter a chroot, you
just have to have the chroot listed in /etc/dchroot.conf

It also supports executing the same command in multiple chroots.

------- Comment #4 From solar 2004-03-15 11:29:49 0000 ------- 
So it installs setuid then?

------- Comment #5 From Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-15 17:02:52 0000 ------- 
Yes, dchroot has to be installed setuid in order to be able to execute
chroot(2).

------- Comment #6 From solar 2004-03-15 19:00:40 0000 ------- 
Ok thanks.. 

I'm anti setuid for silly things and I don't see how this would benefit our group.

Anybody else (hardened) want to merge this?

If nobody says anything within a day or two Gabriel please reassign this to bug-wranglers@

------- Comment #7 From SpanKY 2005-02-11 18:17:15 0000 ------- 
0.10 now in portage
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