Podman (rootful & rootless) support

- Rootless support for unitexe user specifically

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta-unit-core/dynamic-layers/virtualization-layer/recipes-users/useradd/add-user-unitexe.bbappend b/meta-unit-core/dynamic-layers/virtualization-layer/recipes-users/useradd/add-user-unitexe.bbappend
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..922b0c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-unit-core/dynamic-layers/virtualization-layer/recipes-users/useradd/add-user-unitexe.bbappend
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+do_install:append() {
+    # If linger is not enabled then rootless podman 
+    # commands will complain with number of warnings.
+    install -d ${D}${localstatedir}/lib/systemd/linger
+    touch ${D}${localstatedir}/lib/systemd/linger/${USER_TO_ADD_NAME}
+
+    # Note: Use of .profile here assumes busybox shell.
+    # Podman uses these (if defined) for overriding
+    # default configuration file locations. This is
+    # explained here:
+    #   https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md#user-configuration-files
+    cat > ${D}/home/${USER_TO_ADD_NAME}/.profile << 'EOF'
+export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
+export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
+EOF
+}
+
+FILES:${PN}:append = " ${localstatedir}/lib/systemd/linger/${USER_TO_ADD_NAME}"