TCB13 , 22 days ago

Well, it’s a container, in most situations you would be running as root because the root inside the container is an unprivileged user outside it. So in effect the root inside the container will only be able to act as root inside that container and nowhere else. Most people simply do it that way and don’t bother with it.

If you really want there are ways to specify the user… but again there’s little to no point there.

<span style="color:#323232;">lxc exec container-name --user 1000 bash 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">lxc exec container-name -- su --shell /bin/bash --login user-name
</span>

For your convenience you can alias that in your host’s ~/.bashrc with something like:

<span style="color:#323232;">lxcbash() { lxc exec "$1" -- sudo --login --user "$2"; }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

And then run like:

<span style="color:#323232;">lxcbash container-name user-name
</span>