Podman

Rootless Commands

Run containers as non-root users for improved security with Podman's rootless architecture.

3 commands

Pro Tips

Use podman unshare to enter user namespace for debugging

Rootless has some networking limitations - use slirp4netns

$ podman info --format '{{.Host.Security.Rootless}}'

Check if running rootless.

$ podman unshare

Enter user namespace for debugging.

$ podman unshare chown 1000:1000 myfile

Change ownership in user namespace.