[Container-tools] what part of podman still *requires* root privilege?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Mar 31 08:57:21 UTC 2019


On Sun, 31 Mar 2019, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:

> the latest podman can work fine without the need for root
>
> you need root if you want to do privileged things in the host like binding to privilidged ports <1024, for example
> podman run -p 80:80
> but as far as the container is concerned you can work fully non-root, ex -p 8080:80
>
> I've tested fully unprivileged to run a complex stack
>
> https://github.com/muayyad-alsadi/podman-compose
> https://twitter.com/muayyadalsadi/status/1105047189880012800

  excellent, that's what i wanted to know, thanks.

rday

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