Comment by Imustaskforhelp
2 days ago
EDIT: it seems that for creating a chroot you still require root.
I don't have root on that system and so I can't create a chroot , there is fakeroot but it doesn't work since it uses qemu on that locked system.
Are there any other alternatives
> it seems that for creating a chroot you still require root.
You actually don't as long as you have user namespaces.
One thing I am working on I use chroot (rather unshare --root=) to minimally sandbox a subprocess. At the beginning of the script I have this little snippet:
Though you can probably just do something roughtly as `unshare --map-root-user --root=<PATH>`.
Fakeroot is good for the debootstrap step, and then schroot runs unprivileged.
fakeroot has nothing to do with qemu -- it simply uses LD preload to make commands think they're uid 0