Bug 44700 – dchroot-0.08.ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-14 14:40:08 UTC]

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 Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-14 14:41:01 UTC]

Created attachment 27366 [details]
The ebuild for dchroot-0.08

[Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) 2004-03-14 20:41:03 UTC]

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 Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-15 10:32:53 UTC]

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 solar (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 11:29:49 UTC]

So it installs setuid then?

[Comment 5 Gabriel Ebner 2004-03-15 17:02:52 UTC]

Yes, dchroot has to be installed setuid in order to be able to execute chroot(2).

[Comment 6 solar (RETIRED) 2004-03-15 19:00:40 UTC]

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 SpanKY 2005-02-11 18:17:15 UTC]

0.10 now in portage