Section 8 · System administration

seunshare.8

Package: policycoreutils-sandbox

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SEUNSHARE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR


NAME

seunshare − Run cmd with alternate homedir, tmpdir and/or SELinux context

SYNOPSIS

seunshare [ -v ] [ -C ] [ -k ] [ -t tmpdir ] [ -h homedir ] [ -Z context ] — executable [args]

DESCRIPTION

Run the executable within the specified context, using custom home directory and /tmp directory. The seunshare command unshares from the default namespace, then mounts the specified homedir and tmpdir over the default homedir and /tmp. Finally it tells the kernel to execute the application under the specified SELinux context. **
−h homedir**

Alternate homedir to be used by the application. Homedir must be owned by the user

−t tmpdir

Use alternate temporary directory to mount on /tmp. tmpdir must be owned by the user

−r runuserdir

Use alternate temporary directory to mount on XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/$UID). runuserdir must be owned by the user

−C —capabilities

Allow apps executed within the namespace to use capabilities. Default is no capabilities

−k —kill

Kill all processes with matching MCS level

−Z context

Use alternate SELinux context while running the executable

−vVerbose output

EXAMPLE

Run bash with temporary /home and /tmp directory

USERHOMEDIR=‘mktemp -d /tmp/home.XXXXXX‘; USERTEMPDIR=‘mktemp -d /tmp/temp.XXXXXX‘

seunshare -v -h ${USERHOMEDIR} -t ${USERTEMPDIR} — /bin/bash

SEE ALSO

runcon(1), sandbox(8), selinux(8)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> and Thomas Liu <tliu@fedoraproject.org>