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This new option does three things for a host user specified via
--bind-user=:
1. Bind mount the home directory from the host directory into
/run/host/home/<username>
2. Install an additional user namepace UID/GID mapping mapping the host
UID/GID of the host user to an unused one from the container in the range
60514…60577.
3. Synthesize a user/group record for the user/group under the same name
as on the host, with minimized information, and the UID/GID set to
the mapped UID/GID. This data is written to /run/host/userdb/ where
nss-system will pick it up.
This should make sharing users and home directories from host into the
container pretty seamless, under some conditions:
1. User namespacing must be used.
2. The host UID/GID of the user/group cannot be in the range assigned to
the container (kernel already refuses this, as this would mean two
host UIDs/GIDs might end up being mapped to the same continer
UID/GID.
3. There's a free UID/GID in the aforementioned range in the container,
and the name of the user/group is not used in the container.
4. Container payload is new enough to include an nss-systemd version
that picks up records from /run/host/userdb/
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