07-11-2018
To put it plainly, chroot is a real change root and not a fake change root and so it affects the whole system, i.e. all users. Therefore, it takes root privilege to action. The whole system is switched to running on a different root directory. Therefore, a standard user cannot be allowed to do this.
A fake chroot is playing around within a users own environment and nobody else sees any change.
An example of a real chroot can be when a system doesn't boot properly so the sysadmin boots the system from DVD into single user mode. Having booted that way, the system root is the root of the DVD. Now the sysadmin can use chroot to switch to the normal hard disk root to see how the system behaves; stable or wobbly?
Fake change root is exactly what is says; fake!
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