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As root, I ran

chroot --userspec=user2:user2 /home/user2
chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: Permission denied

The dir /home/user2 has in it
all the *bin and *lib  (links) and usr/*bin and usr/*lib files and subdirs.

So, what is chroot good for???