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| author | Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> | 2018-11-09 11:22:44 -0500 |
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| committer | Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> | 2018-11-10 04:46:06 -0500 |
| commit | 542d8fe95f66c0a3aabb9d964c260a0b3b9aaae8 (patch) | |
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| parent | 78e6d8e7d70d431ccf096dee0f8eadb1c9b2967b (diff) | |
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Better document rootless containers
Need to return an error pointing user in right direction if rootless podman
fails, because of no /etc/subuid or /etc/subgid files.
Also fix up man pages to better describe rootless podman.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/podman.1.md b/docs/podman.1.md index c66a9cf05..b7433d850 100644 --- a/docs/podman.1.md +++ b/docs/podman.1.md @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ the exit codes follow the `chroot` standard, see below: When Podman runs in rootless mode, the file `$HOME/.config/containers/storage.conf` is also loaded. ## Rootless mode -Podman can also be used as non-root user. When podman runs in rootless mode, an user namespace is automatically created. +Podman can also be used as non-root user. When podman runs in rootless mode, a user namespace is automatically created for the user, defined in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid. Containers created by a non-root user are not visible to other users and are not seen or managed by podman running as root. @@ -209,13 +209,14 @@ Or just add the content manually. $ echo USERNAME:10000:65536 >> /etc/subuid $ echo USERNAME:10000:65536 >> /etc/subgid +See the `subuid(5)` and `subgid(5)` man pages for more information. + Images are pulled under `XDG_DATA_HOME` when specified, otherwise in the home directory of the user under `.local/share/containers/storage`. -Currently it is not possible to create a network device, so rootless containers need to run in the host network namespace. If a rootless container creates a network namespace, -then only the loopback device will be available. +Currently the slirp4netns package is required to be installed to create a network device, otherwise rootless containers need to run in the network namespace of the host. ## SEE ALSO -`containers-mounts.conf(5)`, `containers-registries.conf(5)`, `containers-storage.conf(5)`, `crio(8)`, `libpod.conf(5)`, `oci-hooks(5)`, `policy.json(5)` +`containers-mounts.conf(5)`, `containers-registries.conf(5)`, `containers-storage.conf(5)`, `crio(8)`, `libpod.conf(5)`, `oci-hooks(5)`, `policy.json(5)`, `subuid(5)`, `subgid(5)`, `slirp4netns(1)` ## HISTORY Dec 2016, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> |