On 2019-10-08 08:13, Lou DeGenaro wrote: > I start with an empty /home/degenaro/.config/containers directory. > I run podman info. > I see that files libpod.conf and storage.conf have been created. > I grep for "/home" and see: > libpod.conf:volume_path = > "/home/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes" > libpod.conf:static_dir = > "/home/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod" > storage.conf:  graphroot = > "/home/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage" > > What's wanted is to configure podman so that "/home" is replaced by > "/tmp".  That is, if I were to erase these .conf files and run podman > info > again I want to see: > > ibpod.conf:volume_path = > "/tmp/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes" > libpod.conf:static_dir = > "/tmp/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod" > storage.conf:  graphroot = > "/tmp/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage" > > The desire is to have all rootless users use /tmp instead of /home, > since > /home is on a shared filesystem which seems to be problematic for > podman. > > Thx. > > Lou. > _______________________________________________ > Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io > To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io There is presently no way to set the directories rootless Podman will use automatically ahead of running 'podman' for the first time for a user (save procedurally generating a config file for them before it runs). However, if you can log into each user once and run a simple Podman command with a few flags, you can set up the config files to point where you want them to. With the '--root', '--runroot', and '--tmpdir' global flags, you can tell Podman where to put its storage. You will need to point all of these to separate directories (they can all be subdirectories of the place in /tmp where the user's Podman files are stored, but they need to be different subdirectories). If Podman has never run before and no config file has been generated, it will be generated using the directories given with those three flags. I've previously advised someone in a similar situation to 'su' to each user running Podman and run a simple 'podman info' command with those flags to preload a sane configuration. If you'd like a way to do this automatically (specify a base directory outside of /home where rootless Podman will place its configuration), I'd recommend you file a feature request. Thanks, Matt Heon _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io

Asking each user that wants to employ rootless podman to do these or similar steps is less desirable than having admin do a system-wide config once. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:09 PM Daniel Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com <mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com>> wrote: On 10/8/19 9:29 AM, Matt Heon wrote: > On 2019-10-08 08:13, Lou DeGenaro wrote: >> I start with an empty /home/degenaro/.config/containers directory. >> I run podman info. >> I see that files libpod.conf and storage.conf have been created. >> I grep for "/home" and see: >> libpod.conf:volume_path = >> "/home/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes" >> libpod.conf:static_dir = >> "/home/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod" >> storage.conf:  graphroot = >> "/home/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage" >> >> What's wanted is to configure podman so that "/home" is replaced by >> "/tmp".  That is, if I were to erase these .conf files and run >> podman info >> again I want to see: >> >> ibpod.conf:volume_path = >> "/tmp/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes" >> libpod.conf:static_dir = >> "/tmp/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage/libpod" >> storage.conf:  graphroot = >> "/tmp/degenaro/.local/share/containers/storage" >> >> The desire is to have all rootless users use /tmp instead of >> /home, since >> /home is on a shared filesystem which seems to be problematic >> for podman. >> >> Thx. >> >> Lou. > >> _______________________________________________ >> Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io >> <mailto:podman@lists.podman.io> >> To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io >> <mailto:podman-leave@lists.podman.io> > > There is presently no way to set the directories rootless Podman > will > use automatically ahead of running 'podman' for the first time for a > user (save procedurally generating a config file for them before it > runs). However, if you can log into each user once and run a simple > Podman command with a few flags, you can set up the config files to > point where you want them to. > > With the '--root', '--runroot', and '--tmpdir' global flags, you can > tell Podman where to put its storage. You will need to point all of > these to separate directories (they can all be subdirectories of the > place in /tmp where the user's Podman files are stored, but they > need > to be different subdirectories). If Podman has never run before > and no > config file has been generated, it will be generated using the > directories given with those three flags. I've previously advised > someone in a similar situation to 'su' to each user running > Podman and > run a simple 'podman info' command with those flags to preload a > sane > configuration. > > If you'd like a way to do this automatically (specify a base > directory > outside of /home where rootless Podman will place its > configuration), > I'd recommend you file a feature request. > > Thanks, > Matt Heon > > _______________________________________________ > Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io <mailto:podman@lists.podman.io> > To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io <mailto:podman-leave@lists.podman.io> How about you just bind mount a directory from /tmp onto /home/USER/.local/share/containers That should solve the issue. # mkdir /tmp/dwalsh # chown dwalsh:dwalsh /tmp/dwalsh # mkdir ~dwalsh/.local/share/containers # mount --bind /tmp/dwalsh ~dwalsh/.local/share/containers # su - dwalsh $ podman run fedora echo hello Most likely you _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io <mailto:podman@lists.podman.io> To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io <mailto:podman-leave@lists.podman.io> _______________________________________________ Podman mailing list -- podman(a)lists.podman.io To unsubscribe send an email to podman-leave(a)lists.podman.io