UNSHARE(1)

NAME
unshare - run program with some namespaces unshared from parent

SYNOPSIS
unshare [options] program [arguments]

DESCRIPTION
Unshares the indicated namespaces from the parent process and then executes the specified program. The namespaces to be unshared are indicated via options. Unshareable 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 flags).

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 distinct set of PID to process mappings from their parent. (CLONE_NEWPID flag)

user namespace
    The process will have a distinct set of UIDs, GIDs and capabilities. (CLONE_NEWUSER flag)

See clone(2) for the exact semantics of the flags.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Display help text and exit.

-i, --ipc
    Unshare the IPC namespace.

-m, --mount
    Unshare the mount namespace.

-n, --net
    Unshare the network namespace.

-p, --pid
    Unshare the pid namespace. See also the --fork and --mount-proc options.

-u, --uts
    Unshare the UTS namespace.

-U, --user
    Unshare the user namespace.

-f, --fork
    Fork the specified program as a child process of unshare rather than running it directly. This is useful when creating a new pid namespace.

--mount-proc[=mountpoint]
    Just before running the program, mount the proc filesystem at the mountpoint (default is /proc). This is useful when creating a new pid namespace. It also implies creating a new mount namespace since the /proc mount would otherwise mess up existing programs on the system.

SEE ALSO
unshare(2), clone(2)

BUGS
None known so far.

AUTHOR
Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>

AVAILABILITY
The unshare command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.