1. Using the Cockpit Web Console
  2. Podman Management Tasks
  3. Podman Container Management
  4. Special Considerations for Non Administrator Containers

Special Considerations for Non Administrator Containers

Review the following special considerations when you're running containers as a non administrator:

  • The storage path for the host container is different for root users (/var/lib/containers/storage) and non administrator users (HOME/.local/share/containers/storage).
  • Non administrators running containers are provided special permission to run as a range of user and group IDs on the host system. However, they have no root privileges to the host OS.
  • In cases where a non administrator needs to change the /etc/subuid or /etc/subgid manually, the changes take effect only after issuing the podman system migrate command.
  • Some system features are uneditable by non administrators. For example, non administrators are unable to change the system clock by setting a SYS_TIME capability inside a container and running the network time service (ntpd).
  • A non administrator container is unable to access a port numbered less than 1024.