become-root

Minimal tool (when compiled with CFLAGS='-s', the binary is around 10Kb) for launching a program into a new user namespace and have multiple users mapped.

The subuidmap and subgidmap tools are required for setting up the user namespace.

The current user is mapped to the root user into the namespace, while any additional uid/gid in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid is mapped starting with the ID 1.

Build

Assuming you have the autotools and gcc installed:

$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make

Options

Some options are available:

• a: create all the namespaces
• c: create a CGroup namespace
• i: create an IPC namespace
• m: create a mount namespace
• n: create a network namespace
• p: create a PID namespace and fork
• u: create an UTS namespace
• P: mount a new /proc
• S: mount a new /sys
• N: configure the network with slirp4netns

Examples

$ become-root unshare -m echo hi from a new user and mount namespace
hi from a new user and mount namespace

$ become-root cat /proc/self/uid_map
         0       1000          1
         1     110000      65536

$ become-root id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nfsnobody) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

$ become-root -aPS ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0 246344  2016 pts/7   R+   13:58   0:00 ps aux