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Diffstat (limited to 'pkg/rootless')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkg/rootless/rootless_linux.go | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/rootless/rootless_linux.go b/pkg/rootless/rootless_linux.go index 5c45f2694..ff8c8fe34 100644 --- a/pkg/rootless/rootless_linux.go +++ b/pkg/rootless/rootless_linux.go @@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ func BecomeRootInUserNS() (bool, int, error) { if username == "" { user, err := user.LookupId(fmt.Sprintf("%d", os.Getuid())) if err != nil && os.Getenv("PODMAN_ALLOW_SINGLE_ID_MAPPING_IN_USERNS") == "" { + if os.IsNotExist(err) { + return false, 0, errors.Wrapf(err, "/etc/subuid or /etc/subgid does not exist, see subuid/subgid man pages for information on these files") + } return false, 0, errors.Wrapf(err, "could not find user by UID nor USER env was set") } if err == nil { |