ilab-wrapper: Run podman with sudo

# Background

The ilab command is wrapped by an `ilab` script which launches ilab
inside a podman container.

# Issue

Since the ilab container image is pulled during the bootc image build
process using the root user, the image is not accessible to non-root
users.

# Solution

We run the container as sudo in order to be able to access the root
container storage. But for security reasons we map root UID 0 inside the
container to the current user's UID (and all the other subuids to the
user's /etc/subuid range) so that we're effectively running the
container as the current user.

# Future work

In the future, we will run podman as the current user, once we figure a
reasonable way for the current user to access the root's user container
storage

Author: omertuc

training/ilab-wrapper/ilab

@@ -8,21 +8,39 @@ export ENTRYPOINT="/opt/python3.11/venv/bin/ilab"
 export PARAMS=("$@")
 
 for dir in "$HOME/.cache" "$HOME/.config" "$HOME/.local"; do
-    mkdir -p "$dir"
+	mkdir -p "$dir"
 done
 
 if [[ "$1" = "shell" ]]; then
-    export ENTRYPOINT=bash
-    export PARAMS=()
+	export ENTRYPOINT=bash
+	export PARAMS=()
 fi
 
-PODMAN_COMMAND=("podman" "run" "--rm" "-it"
-    "--device" "${CONTAINER_DEVICE}"
-    "--security-opt" "label=disable" "--net" "host"
-    "-v" "$HOME:$HOME"
-    "--env" "HOME"
-    "--entrypoint" "$ENTRYPOINT"
-    "--env" "HF_TOKEN"
-    "${IMAGE_NAME}")
+# We run the container as sudo in order to be able to access the root container
+# storage, which has the ilab image pre-pulled. But for security reasons we map
+# root UID 0 inside the container to the current user's UID (and all the other
+# subuids to the user's /etc/subuid range) so that we're effectively running
+# the container as the current user.
+#
+# In the future, we will run podman as the current user, once we figure a
+# reasonable way for the current user to access the root's user container
+# storage.
+CURRENT_USER_NAME=$(id --user --name)
+CURRENT_USER_SUBUID_RANGE=$(awk \
+	--field-separator ':' \
+	--assign current_user="$CURRENT_USER_NAME" \
+	'$1 == current_user {print $2 ":" $3}' \
+	/etc/subuid)
+IMPERSONATE_CURRENT_USER_PODMAN_FLAGS=("--uidmap" "0:$UID" "--uidmap" "1:$CURRENT_USER_SUBUID_RANGE")
+
+PODMAN_COMMAND=("sudo" "podman" "run" "--rm" "-it"
+	"${IMPERSONATE_CURRENT_USER_PODMAN_FLAGS[@]}"
+	"--device" "${CONTAINER_DEVICE}"
+	"--security-opt" "label=disable" "--net" "host"
+	"-v" "$HOME:$HOME"
+	"--env" "HOME"
+	"--entrypoint" "$ENTRYPOINT"
+	"--env" "HF_TOKEN"
+	"${IMAGE_NAME}")
 
 exec "${PODMAN_COMMAND[@]}" "${PARAMS[@]}"

training/nvidia-bootc/duplicated/ilab-wrapper/ilab

@@ -8,21 +8,39 @@ export ENTRYPOINT="/opt/python3.11/venv/bin/ilab"
 export PARAMS=("$@")
 
 for dir in "$HOME/.cache" "$HOME/.config" "$HOME/.local"; do
-    mkdir -p "$dir"
+	mkdir -p "$dir"
 done
 
 if [[ "$1" = "shell" ]]; then
-    export ENTRYPOINT=bash
-    export PARAMS=()
+	export ENTRYPOINT=bash
+	export PARAMS=()
 fi
 
-PODMAN_COMMAND=("podman" "run" "--rm" "-it"
-    "--device" "${CONTAINER_DEVICE}"
-    "--security-opt" "label=disable" "--net" "host"
-    "-v" "$HOME:$HOME"
-    "--env" "HOME"
-    "--entrypoint" "$ENTRYPOINT"
-    "--env" "HF_TOKEN"
-    "${IMAGE_NAME}")
+# We run the container as sudo in order to be able to access the root container
+# storage, which has the ilab image pre-pulled. But for security reasons we map
+# root UID 0 inside the container to the current user's UID (and all the other
+# subuids to the user's /etc/subuid range) so that we're effectively running
+# the container as the current user.
+#
+# In the future, we will run podman as the current user, once we figure a
+# reasonable way for the current user to access the root's user container
+# storage.
+CURRENT_USER_NAME=$(id --user --name)
+CURRENT_USER_SUBUID_RANGE=$(awk \
+	--field-separator ':' \
+	--assign current_user="$CURRENT_USER_NAME" \
+	'$1 == current_user {print $2 ":" $3}' \
+	/etc/subuid)
+IMPERSONATE_CURRENT_USER_PODMAN_FLAGS=("--uidmap" "0:$UID" "--uidmap" "1:$CURRENT_USER_SUBUID_RANGE")
+
+PODMAN_COMMAND=("sudo" "podman" "run" "--rm" "-it"
+	"${IMPERSONATE_CURRENT_USER_PODMAN_FLAGS[@]}"
+	"--device" "${CONTAINER_DEVICE}"
+	"--security-opt" "label=disable" "--net" "host"
+	"-v" "$HOME:$HOME"
+	"--env" "HOME"
+	"--entrypoint" "$ENTRYPOINT"
+	"--env" "HF_TOKEN"
+	"${IMAGE_NAME}")
 
 exec "${PODMAN_COMMAND[@]}" "${PARAMS[@]}"