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buildah-unshare(1)	    General Commands Manual	    buildah-unshare(1)

NAME
       buildah-unshare - Run a command inside of a modified user namespace.

SYNOPSIS
       buildah unshare [options] [--] [command]

DESCRIPTION
       Launches	 a  process (by	default, $SHELL) in a new user namespace.  The
       user namespace is configured so that the	invoking user's	UID  and  pri-
       mary  GID appear	to be UID 0 and	GID 0, respectively.  Any ranges which
       match that user and group  in  /etc/subuid  and	/etc/subgid  are  also
       mapped  in  as  themselves  with	 the  help  of	the  newuidmap(1)  and
       newgidmap(1) helpers.

       buildah unshare is useful for troubleshooting  unprivileged  operations
       and  for	manually clearing storage and other data related to images and
       containers.

       It is also useful if you	want to	use the	buildah	mount command.	If  an
       unprivileged  user  wants to mount and work with	a container, then they
       need to execute buildah unshare.	 Executing buildah mount fails for un-
       privileged users	unless the user	is running inside  a  buildah  unshare
       session.

OPTIONS
       --mount,	-m [VARIABLE=]containerNameOrID

       Mount  the  containerNameOrID  container	while running command, and set
       the environment variable	VARIABLE to the	path of	 the  mountpoint.   If
       VARIABLE	 is not	specified, it defaults to containerNameOrID, which may
       not be a	valid name for an environment variable.

EXAMPLE
       buildah unshare id

       buildah unshare pwd

       buildah unshare cat /proc/self/uid_map /proc/self/gid_map

       buildah	 unshare    rm	  -fr	 $HOME/.local/share/containers/storage
       /run/user/`id -u`/run

       buildah	unshare	 --mount containerID sh	-c 'cat	${containerID}/etc/os-
       release'

       If you want to use buildah with a mount command then you	can  create  a
       script that looks something like:

       cat buildah-script.sh <<	_EOF
       #!/bin/sh
       ctr=$(buildah from scratch)
       mnt=$(buildah mount $ctr)
       dnf -y install --installroot=$mnt PACKAGES
       dnf -y clean all	--installroot=$mnt
       buildah config --entrypoint="/bin/PACKAGE" --env	"FOO=BAR" $ctr
       buildah commit $ctr imagename
       buildah unmount $ctr
       _EOF

       Then execute it with:

       buildah unshare buildah-script.sh

SEE ALSO
       buildah(1),	buildah-mount(1),     namespaces(7),	 newuidmap(1),
       newgidmap(1), user_namespaces(7)

buildah				   June	2018		    buildah-unshare(1)

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