m13253/fakechroot-utils

Chroot without root privilege on shared system: scripts, config, docs.

fakechroot.sh

Chroot without root privilege on shared system.

Suitable for setting up your work environment on a shared machine in an academic lab, running old Ubuntu or CentOS.

Index

1. Task: Preparing an ArchLinux chroot environment.

   Docs:

   • docs/prepare-archlinux.md

   Scripts:

   • scripts/fakechroot.sh

2. Task: Build bubblewrap statically.

   Docs:

   • docs/bwrap-static-build.md

3. Task: Clearing up environment variable passed from outside the chroot.

   Scripts:

   • scripts/clear-env.bash
   • scripts/clear-env.fish

4. Task: Share NVIDIA GPU devices with the chroot environment.

   Docs:

   • scripts/link-nvidia.bash
   • scripts/link-nvidia.fish

5. Task: Use Visual Studio Code to connect to the remote chroot environment via SSH.

   Docs:

   • docs/vscode-remote.md

6. Issue: man shows error message: “error while loading shared libraries”

   Docs:

   • docs/man-apparmor.md

7. Issue: Proot does nothing; with arguments -v 1, it shows “proot info: vpid 1: terminated with signal 11”.

   Docs:

   • docs/proot-no-seccomp.md

8. Issue: pacman produces error message: “proot: ./path/path.c:547: compare_paths2: Assertion length2 > 0 failed.”

   Docs:

   • docs/proot-compare_paths2.md

License

Licensed under WTFPL, version 2.

License terms available at: http://www.wtfpl.net/about/.

If you benefit from this program, please consider writing a blog post to introduce this method.