SYNOPSIS
subuser [SUBCOMMAND] [SUBCOMMAND ARGS]DESCRIPTION
subuser allows you to install and administer desktop applications contained using Docker. This is useful if you need to provide portability across Linux distributions or hightened security. The applications have limited access to the main system and user files. Access is granted solely through a whitelisting permissions file.OPTIONS
Pass the --help option to any subcommand in order to find its options. The following subcommands are available:- subuser
- Add, remove, and configure subusers
- run
- Run subusers
- repository
- Add and configure repositories
- update
- Update subuser images
- remove-old-images
- Remove unused images to free up disk space
- registry
- Interact with the subuser registry
- list
- List subusers and images
- describe
- Describe subusers and images
- repair
- Repair your subuser installation. Useful after migrating to a new system.
- pkg
- Create new subuser images
- dev
- Use subuser to create portable and reproducible dev environments
- version
- Print subuser's version information
EXAMPLES
To create a subuser named web-browsing based on the iceweasel image
- $ subuser subuser add web-browsing iceweasel@default
To run that subuser
- $ subuser run web-browsing
To create a second subuser, also based on the iceweasel image, but this time reserved for internet banking
- $ subuser subuser add internet-banking iceweasel@default
To run that subuser
- $ subuser run internet-banking
To add a subuser to the PATH
- $ subuser subuser add-to-path internet-banking
To update your subuser images
- $ subuser update all
All updates are atomic, and you can continue to use your subusers while the update command is running. If you find that an older version of a subuser's image was better, you can always roll back the update for that subuser
- $ subuser registry log $ subuser lock-subuser-to internet-banking <commit-hash-from-log>
AUTHOR
Timothy Hobbs (timothy.hobbs.cz)