runuser error in a docker container on rawhide

[Robert Rati]

I'm pretty baffled.  I've successfully used runuser with F20 as the host 
and F20 in the container.  Something is different in rawhide.  I even 
tried downgrading util-linux in the container to the latest version in 
F20 and I still get the same error, which leads me to believe it's not 
util-linux at all.  The docker version in rawhide is newer (I'm running 
rawhide host and rawhide in the container), but I wouldn't expect that 
to affect runuser.

Rob

On 06/04/2014 03:54 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
> On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Robert Rati wrote:
>> I checked the status of selinux in the container and it was disabled,
>> so I don't think that's the problem.  I then tried re-launching the
>> container in privileged mode (--privileged=true) and that didn't
>> change anything.  The runuser command still prints "System error" if I
>> use it to do anything, even nothing.
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> On 06/04/2014 02:37 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/04/2014 02:27 PM, Robert Rati wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to run some docker containers and it appears the runuser in
>>>> rawhide isn't functional in the container:
>>>>
>>>> # runuser
>>>> runuser: System error
>>>>
>>>> I can run runuser in a physical system running rawhide however.  These
>>>> same images created off of F20 containers worked fine.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone run into this?  Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>> I would guess it is potentially SELinux or /proc being readonly.
>>>
>>> Put the machine into permissive mode to see if it is SELinux, (I
>>> doubt it).
>>>
>>> You could check with a priv container to see if /proc or capabilities ar
>>> ethe problem.
>>>
> Strange testing on rhel7 I see it working.
>
> # docker run --rm -ti fedora runuser -u ftp id
> uid=14(ftp) gid=50(ftp) groups=50(ftp)
>