Cloudlinux 8 and rootless Podman

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  • phjp
    Junior Member
    • Sep 2025
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    Cloudlinux 8 and rootless Podman

    Hi,

    We run CloudLinux 8.10 without control panel on pretty much all our hosting and it works great! However, I've been exploring running Podman as a non-root user on Cloudlinux and I'm running into undocumented errors that do not seem to happen on other OS, so I find myself at a loss.

    I'm trying to run Podman 4.9.4-rhel with runc 1.1.12 . I've created an user with cagefs disabled and set lve to unlimited. I am able to call podman and runc on the command line. However, when I try to start up a container, I get the following error:

    Error: OCI runtime error: runc: you have no read access to runc binary file
    runc create failed: unable to start container process: waiting for init preliminary setup: read init-p: connection reset by peer

    Afaik though, I DO have access to the runc binary from the user. While I've delved into strace log when booting the container, I haven't been able to find out what's exactly missing for runc to start properly. My best guess is that the error message is wrong and something else is blocking.

    So, I must ask, is rootless Podman compatible with CloudLinux? Or is there a security feature that fundamentally breaks rootless Podman?
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