1podman-unshare(1)() podman-unshare(1)()
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6 podman-unshare - Run a command inside of a modified user namespace
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10 podman unshare [options] [--] [command]
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14 Launches a process (by default, $SHELL) in a new user namespace. The
15 user namespace is configured so that the invoking user's UID and pri‐
16 mary GID appear to be UID 0 and GID 0, respectively. Any ranges which
17 match that user and group in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid are also
18 mapped in as themselves with the help of the newuidmap(1) and
19 newgidmap(1) helpers.
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22 podman unshare is useful for troubleshooting unprivileged operations
23 and for manually clearing storage and other data related to images and
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27 It is also useful if you want to use the podman mount command. If an
28 unprivileged users wants to mount and work with a container, then they
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34 The unshare session defines two environment variables:
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37 CONTAINERS_GRAPHROOT the path to the persistent containers data. CON‐
38 TAINERS_RUNROOT the path to the volatile containers data.
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42 $ podman unshare id
43 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nobody)
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45 $ podman unshare cat /proc/self/uid_map /proc/self/gid_map
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54 podman(1), podman-mount(1), namespaces(7), newuidmap(1), newgidmap(1),
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59 podman-unshare(1)()