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authorValentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>2021-03-05 10:33:27 +0100
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podman cp: ignore EPERMs in rootless mode
Ignore permission errors when copying from a rootless container. TTY devices inside rootless containers are owned by the host's root user which is "nobody" inside the container's user namespace rendering us unable to even read them. Enable the integration test which was temporarily disabled for rootless users. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>
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Using `-` as the *src_path* streams the contents of STDIN as a tar archive. The command extracts the content of the tar to the *DEST_PATH* in the container. In this case, *dest_path* must specify a directory. Using `-` as the *dest_path* streams the contents of the resource (can be a directory) as a tar archive to STDOUT.
+Note that `podman cp` ignores permission errors when copying from a running rootless container. The TTY devices inside a rootless container are owned by the host's root user and hence cannot be read inside the container's user namespace.
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## OPTIONS
## ALTERNATIVES