Control: retitle -1 Please print nicer error message if newuidmap is not installed Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tag -1 upstream
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 11:07 AM Andrej Shadura <andre...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, at 17:04, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > > 2) Docker doesn’t require installing anything else to be useful for > non-root users, if podman does, it should be in Depends. > > > No, it's wrong. > > > Docker has two modes. > > 1. root mode. It runs a daemon, and listens to a local socket, which > > is /var/run/docker.sock The socket is owned by docker group. Non root > > can't access this unless you are in the docker group. > > 2. rootless mode, you need the uidmap and rootlesskit package to setup > > the demon for non root users. > > > So, it never requires no thing for non root users. > > That’s an implementation detail. From the user’s point of view, a package > which gives an error on install without any clear pointers to what went > wrong (e.g. "try to run as root?") looks like a broken package. > > > Can you please report this at https://github.com/containers/podman/issues and report back with a link to your report? -- regards, Reinhard
