[systemd-devel] Enter in systemd-nspawn as specific user

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 12:48:31PM +0200, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 11:49 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > There's nspawn's --user= switch which relies on glibc's "getent"
> > binary to be available in the container, which it will use to resolve
> > the username in the container's context and then change to it.
> 
> Perfect!
> 
> However if I do:
> # /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn -D ./
>   # /usr/sbin/useradd  -m  foobar
>   Ctrl+D
> # /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn -D ./ --user foobar
> Spawning namespace container on /tmp/test (console is /dev/pts/15).
> Init process in the container running as PID 16099.
> mkdir_safe_label() failed: File exists
> Container failed with error code 1.
This seems to by systemd-208. A lot of changes have gone into nspawn since
then. You probably should try with the latest nspawn, get things working,
and work back from there.

Zbyszek