nsenter(1)
NAME
nsenter - run program with namespaces of other processes
SYNOPSIS
nsenter [options] [program [arguments]]
DESCRIPTION
Enters the namespaces of one or more other processes and then executes
the specified program. Enterable namespaces are:
mount namespace
Mounting and unmounting filesystems will not affect the rest of
the system (CLONE_NEWNS flag), except for filesystems which are
explicitly marked as shared (with mount --make-shared; see /proc
/self/mountinfo for the shared flag).
UTS namespace
Setting hostname or domainname will not affect the rest of the
system. (CLONE_NEWUTS flag)
IPC namespace
The process will have an independent namespace for System V
message queues, semaphore sets and shared memory segments.
(CLONE_NEWIPC flag)
network namespace
The process will have independent IPv4 and IPv6 stacks, IP
routing tables, firewall rules, the /proc/net and /sys/class/net
directory trees, sockets, etc. (CLONE_NEWNET flag)
PID namespace
Children will have a set of PID to process mappings separate
from the nsenter process (CLONE_NEWPID flag). nsenter will fork
by default if changing the PID namespace, so that the new
program and its children share the same PID namespace and are
visible to each other. If --no-fork is used, the new program
will be exec'ed without forking.
user namespace
The process will have a distinct set of UIDs, GIDs and
capabilities. (CLONE_NEWUSER flag)
cgroup namespace
The process will have a virtualized view of /proc/self/cgroup,
and new cgroup mounts will be rooted at the namespace cgroup
root. (CLONE_NEWCGROUP flag)
See clone(2) for the exact semantics of the flags.
If program is not given, then ``${SHELL}'' is run (default: /bin/sh).
OPTIONS
-t, --target pid
Specify a target process to get contexts from. The paths to the
contexts specified by pid are:
/proc/pid/ns/mnt the mount namespace
/proc/pid/ns/uts the UTS namespace
/proc/pid/ns/ipc the IPC namespace
/proc/pid/ns/net the network namespace
/proc/pid/ns/pid the PID namespace
/proc/pid/ns/user the user namespace
/proc/pid/ns/cgroup the cgroup namespace
/proc/pid/root the root directory
/proc/pid/cwd the working directory respectively
-m, --mount[=file]
Enter the mount namespace. If no file is specified, enter the
mount namespace of the target process. If file is specified,
enter the mount namespace specified by file.
-u, --uts[=file]
Enter the UTS namespace. If no file is specified, enter the UTS
namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter
the UTS namespace specified by file.
-i, --ipc[=file]
Enter the IPC namespace. If no file is specified, enter the IPC
namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter
the IPC namespace specified by file.
-n, --net[=file]
Enter the network namespace. If no file is specified, enter the
network namespace of the target process. If file is specified,
enter the network namespace specified by file.
-p, --pid[=file]
Enter the PID namespace. If no file is specified, enter the PID
namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter
the PID namespace specified by file.
-U, --user[=file]
Enter the user namespace. If no file is specified, enter the
user namespace of the target process. If file is specified,
enter the user namespace specified by file. See also the
--setuid and --setgid options.
-C, --cgroup[=file]
Enter the cgroup namespace. If no file is specified, enter the
cgroup namespace of the target process. If file is specified,
enter the cgroup namespace specified by file.
-G, --setgid gid
Set the group ID which will be used in the entered namespace and
drop supplementary groups. nsenter(1) always sets GID for user
namespaces, the default is 0.
-S, --setuid uid
Set the user ID which will be used in the entered namespace.
nsenter(1) always sets UID for user namespaces, the default is
0.
--preserve-credentials
Don't modify UID and GID when enter user namespace. The default
is to drops supplementary groups and sets GID and UID to 0.
-r, --root[=directory]
Set the root directory. If no directory is specified, set the
root directory to the root directory of the target process. If
directory is specified, set the root directory to the specified
directory.
-w, --wd[=directory]
Set the working directory. If no directory is specified, set
the working directory to the working directory of the target
process. If directory is specified, set the working directory
to the specified directory.
-F, --no-fork
Do not fork before exec'ing the specified program. By default,
when entering a PID namespace, nsenter calls fork before calling
exec so that any children will also be in the newly entered PID
namespace.
-Z, --follow-context
Set the SELinux security context used for executing a new
process according to already running process specified by
--target PID. (The util-linux has to be compiled with SELinux
support otherwise the option is unavailable.)
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
SEE ALSO
setns(2), clone(2)
AUTHORS
Eric Biederman biederm@xmission.com Karel Zak kzak@redhat.com
AVAILABILITY
The nsenter command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util- linux/.
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