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| author | Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> | 2021-03-08 16:04:20 -0500 |
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| committer | Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> | 2021-03-10 06:34:47 -0500 |
| commit | c9ef2607104a0b17e5146b3ee01852edb7d3d688 (patch) | |
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Document CONTAINERS_CONF/CONTAINERS_STORAGE_CONF Env variables
Also Switch to using CONTAINERS_REGISTRIES_CONF for registries.conf
overrides.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md index 6f9e705c2..141d231f3 100644 --- a/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md +++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md @@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ Distributions ship the `/usr/share/containers/containers.conf` file with their d Podman uses builtin defaults if no containers.conf file is found. +If the **CONTAINERS_CONF** environment variable is set, then its value is used for the containers.conf file rather than the default. + **mounts.conf** (`/usr/share/containers/mounts.conf`) The mounts.conf file specifies volume mount directories that are automatically mounted inside containers when executing the `podman run` or `podman start` commands. Administrators can override the defaults file by creating `/etc/containers/mounts.conf`. @@ -295,6 +297,8 @@ When Podman runs in rootless mode, the file `$HOME/.config/containers/mounts.con Non root users of Podman can create the `$HOME/.config/containers/registries.conf` file to be used instead of the system defaults. + If the **CONTAINERS_REGISTRIES_CONF** environment variable is set, then its value is used for the registries.conf file rather than the default. + **storage.conf** (`/etc/containers/storage.conf`, `$HOME/.config/containers/storage.conf`) storage.conf is the storage configuration file for all tools using containers/storage @@ -303,8 +307,10 @@ When Podman runs in rootless mode, the file `$HOME/.config/containers/mounts.con When Podman runs in rootless mode, the file `$HOME/.config/containers/storage.conf` is used instead of the system defaults. + If the **CONTAINERS_STORAGE_CONF** environment variable is set, the its value is used for the storage.conf file rather than the default. + ## Rootless mode -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. +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. |