Just started using userns remapping (default) and cannot get host volumes mapped into the container. Keeps giving a permission denied: ERROR: for vote oci runtime error: rootfs_linux.go:53: mounting "/app" to rootfs "/var/lib/docker/165536.165536/aufs/mnt/bc58b54f5b592fcc11b436c229f242617d891e873c…

Did you find the solution for that? I’m also facing this problem.

How would you expect this to work here? The container can’t “see” the users from the host, so the user who owns that directory on the host does not exist as far as the container is concerned. Isn’t that what you signed up for using a user namespace? The namespaces are separate. Presumably you tu…

@nathanleclaire I do expect it to work, not only that, but I do expect that the userns ONLY usage pattern should be the OP usecase. For God’s sake! The one and only usecase for userns is: “remap root inside container as regular user to avoid docker creating root-owned files locally” there is no oth…

Yup, it’s still very much the same problem in 2021 with docker 20.10.7

Could you share your case as well? Some commands and the output of your docker info. I will try to reproduce your issue because it really works for me the way I tried. I could use volumes created by docker volume create and mount non-existent folders created automatically on the host where I don’t h…

Usernsremap causing permissions issues

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rimelek (Ákos Takács) November 25, 2021, 11:11pm 5

You have the same issue? The original post is 5 years old using a different storage driver. I don’t have problem with mounting using overlayfs2 and userns-remap

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Usernsremap causing permissions issues

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