[Podman] Re: ownership of a mounted home directry

R C <cjvijf(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: > On 4/25/22 12:47, Daniel Walsh wrote: >> On 4/24/22 18:36, R C wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> I built a container that mounts the /home directy (it has one >>> unprivileged user). >>> >>> (I used buildah and podman on that unprivileged account, using rhel8) >>> >>> However when I connect to the container, I see that the >>> unprivileged user's home directory is owned by root. >>> >>> >>> any idea why that would be,  I am probably missing something >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> >>> Ron >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io >>> To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io >> Please show the actually podman command you are executing to see >> this issue, also give the output of podman info > I probably have to change something with namespaces or so: > > $ podman run -it --rm --name=home-fs -v $HOME:$HOME -v /mnt:/mnt -u > myuid localhost/home-fs > bash: /home/myuid/.bashrc: Permission denied > bash-4.4$ > > [rocr@containers ~]$ podman run -it --rm --name=home-fs -v $HOME:$HOME > -v /mnt:/mnt localhost/home-fs > [root@b82256bb2424 myuid]# the rootless container is running in a user namespace where root in the container is mapped to your UID on the host. You are probably looking for the `--userns keep-id` option: $ podman run -it --rm --userns keep-id --name=home-fs -v $HOME:$HOME -v /mnt:/mnt localhost/home-fs

You can find a better explanation here: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/user-flag-rootless-containers