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diff --git a/docs/source/man/podman-unshare.1.md b/docs/source/man/podman-unshare.1.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9052b97ab --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/man/podman-unshare.1.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +% podman-unshare(1) + +## NAME +podman\-unshare - Run a command inside of a modified user namespace + +## SYNOPSIS +**podman unshare** [*options*] [*--*] [*command*] + +## DESCRIPTION +Launches a process (by default, *$SHELL*) in a new user namespace. The user +namespace is configured so that the invoking user's UID and primary GID appear +to be UID 0 and GID 0, respectively. Any ranges which match that user and +group in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid are also mapped in as themselves with the +help of the *newuidmap(1)* and *newgidmap(1)* helpers. + +podman unshare is useful for troubleshooting unprivileged operations and for +manually clearing storage and other data related to images and containers. + +It is also useful if you want to use the `podman mount` command. If an unprivileged users wants to mount and work with a container, then they need to execute +podman unshare. Executing `podman mount` fails for unprivileged users unless the user is running inside a `podman unshare` session. + +The unshare session defines two environment variables: + +**CONTAINERS_GRAPHROOT** the path to the persistent containers data. +**CONTAINERS_RUNROOT** the path to the volatile containers data. + +## EXAMPLE + +``` +$ podman unshare id +uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nobody) + +$ podman unshare cat /proc/self/uid_map /proc/self/gid_map + 0 1000 1 + 1 10000 65536 + 0 1000 1 + 1 10000 65536 +``` + + +## SEE ALSO +podman(1), podman-mount(1), namespaces(7), newuidmap(1), newgidmap(1), user\_namespaces(7) |