Useful lxc command aliases

[seffyroff]

@simos

I used to suggest to lxc exec mycontainer -- sudo --user ubuntu --login . This can be aliased, with an alias named ubuntu so that a user can just run lxc ubuntu mycontainer and get a non-root shell.

This works great, and I’d already been using this after reading it from several of your fantastic tutorials.

@simos

eate the following alias , named ubuntu :

lxc alias add ubuntu 'exec @ARGS@ --mode interactive -- /bin/sh -xac ubuntu - exec /bin/login -p -f '

Run as:

lxc ubuntu mycontainer

This one doesn’t work for me. I get the following output (from an ubuntu-minimal:bionic container, which might explain it?)

seffyroff@celery:~$ lxc alias add ubuntu 'exec @ARGS@ --mode interactive -- /bin/sh -xac ubuntu - exec /bin/login -p -f '
seffyroff@celery:~$ lxc ubuntu lxdui
+ ubuntu
-: 1: -: ubuntu: not found