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Issues with permissions when it comes to podman starr apps (self.linux4noobs)

submitted 1 month ago by Cyno to c/linux4noobs

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I've been migrating to linux recently and next headache on the list are my starr apps (sonarr, radarr, etc). On windows I just had them installed as background services but I wanted to give (rootless) podman a try on linux since everyone kept recommending it and saying how much better the experience is than on windows.

Anyway, I've set everything up and some of the services work, but specifically sonarr and radarr can't write to the main media folder with the error: Folder '/data/media/tv/' is not writable by user 'abc'

So, first of all, I didn't make user 'abc', it is some internal docker/podman/starr user allegedly and it's supposed to be mapped to my real user, which I did by providing the PUID=1000, PGID=1000 env variables.

Second, I tried to give read and write permissions to everyone for the placeholder folders but it didn't change anything. I don't think this is the issue since other services like the one for sabnzbd or jellyfin had no problems using folders I created.

Googling for the issue brought up some topics about NFS shares but I don't know anything about this - this is not a NAS or even some external drive, it's just podman installed on fedora.

Any help is appreciated, here's a pastebin of my compose file if it's relevant https://pastebin.com/uX9Saqvj

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With rootless podman, the internal PUID/PGID being set to 1000 within the container is likely being remapped into your subuid/subgid range (eg, if your /etc/subuid is cyno:100000:65536, id 1000 within the container becomes id 101000 outside of it). You can use podman's --userns=keep-id parameter to map your own host uid 1000 to id 1000 within the container.

[–] Cyno 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm struggling a bit to incorporate that command into podman compose though, I'm reading through this issue and I'm a bit lost.

Do I just add this to sonarr section in my yaml? I tried it and it doesn't seem to have done much

x-podman:
    keep-id:uid=1000

Should I try and switch everything to podman kube play as some user there recommended maybe?