From what I have seen, rootless podman seems to take more effort (even if marginal) than rootful one. I want to make a more informed decision for the containers, so I would like to ask.

  1. What is a rootless podman good for? How much does it help in terms of security, and does it have other benefits?
  2. One of the benefits commonly mentioned is for when container is breached. Then, running container on sudo-capable user would give no security benefits. Does it mean I should run podman services on a non-privileged user?

Thank you!

  • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    You need to add :Z to the end of your volume lines, or lowercase z for shared volumes.

    I’m running 50+ containers, probably most of the popular ones, and all working fine.

    • felbane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I don’t necessarily agree with it, but there’s the third option of just disabling SELinux and removing the frustration entirely.