Sbuild provides facilities to manage and access chroots, as part of schroot.

schroot allows users to execute commands or interactive shells in different chroots. any number of named chroots may be created, and access permissions given to each, including root access for normal users, on a per-user or per-group basis. additionally, schroot can switch to a different user in the chroot, using pam for authentication and authorisation. all operations are logged for security.

this package contains the header files and static library needed to develop applications which make use of sbuild. once the api and abi are stable, a shared library will replace the static library.