[Lxc-users] Root-less containers?

[Nirmal Guhan]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> wrote:
> On 02/04/2011 07:24 PM, Andre Nathan wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Is it possible to have everything inside a container (including init,
>> getty and whatever daemons are installed) being run as a normal user?
>> That is, can I have a container with no root user in /etc/passwd?
>
> Not yet. The user namespace is partially implement in the kernel and the
> userspace tools do not make use of it for the moment.
>

I believe the container root user is different from host root user and
a container root user cannot access host resources as host root and
jeopardize the system?
-nirmal