Create a bind mount from a Proxmox host on an unprivileged lxc container

LXCBindMount.md

Proxmox Assign Bind Mount To Unprivileged Container

In order for the LXC container to have full access the proxmox host directory, a subgid is set as owner of a host directory, and an ACL is used to ensure permissions.

Bind Mount dataset to LXC

Add the following line to /etc/pve/lxc/<CT_ID>.conf

mp0:/mount/point/on/host,mp=/mount/point/on/lxc

Create group on host

In the default Proxmox configuration, unpriviliged container subgids will have the prefix "10" followed by the expected 4-digit gid.

addgroup --gid <GID (ie."101000")> <GroupName (ie."container-data")>

Set ACL for shared dataset

Any members of -GID- will have "rwx", new files from -GID- have "rwx" default Note: documentation suggests the "-d" flag should be used to assign default, however I have been able to get the desired result without, so... take that as you will

chgrp -R <GroupName> <Dataset>
chmod -R 2775 <Dataset>
setfacl -Rm g:<GID>:rwx,d:g:<GID>:rwx <Dataset>

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Inside your LXC container

Create group

GID needs to match the last 4 digits of the subgid assigned earlier

addgroup --gid <GID (ie."1000")> <GroupName (ie."container-data")>

Add users to new permitted group

usermod -aG <GroupName> <User>

You should now be able to make modifications to the assigned directory on the host system from within the unpriviliged container.

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References

https://blog.felixbrucker.com/2015/10/01/how-to-mount-host-directories-inside-a-proxmox-lxc-container/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/4h0erv/resolving_permissions_issues_with_host_bind/

Great write up! Works like a charm. Thank you very much.

If you're using ZFS on proxmox on the bindmount and you're getting operation not supported on the setfactl command, you additionally need to:

zfs set acltype=posixacl my/dataset

Then reboot. Rebooting (or potentially re-mounting the dataset) ensures the acl type actually becomes active.