## NAME

nsenter - run program with namespaces of other processes

## SYNOPSIS

nsenter [options]

## DESCRIPTION

Enters the namespaces of one or more other processes and then executes the specified program. Enterable namespaces are:

mount namespace Mounting and unmounting filesystems will not affect the rest of the system

flag), except for filesystems which are explicitly marked as shared (with mount --make-:shared; see /proc:/self:/mountinfo for the shared flag).

UTS namespace Setting hostname or domainname will not affect the rest of the system.

flag)

IPC namespace The process will have an independent namespace for System V message queues, semaphore sets and shared memory segments.

flag)

network namespace The process will have independent IPv4 and IPv6 stacks, IP routing tables, firewall rules, the /proc\:/net and /sys\:/class\:/net directory trees, sockets, etc.

flag)

PID namespace Children will have a set of PID to process mappings separate from the nsenter process

flag). nsenter will fork by default if changing the PID namespace, so that the new program and its children share the same PID namespace and are visible to each other. If --no-fork is used, the new program will be exec'ed without forking.

user namespace The process will have a distinct set of UIDs, GIDs and capabilities.

flag)

See clone(2) for the exact semantics of the flags.

If program is not given, then ``${SHELL}'' is run (default: /bin:/sh).

## OPTIONS

-t, --target pid Specify a target process to get contexts from. The paths to the contexts specified by pid are:

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/proc/pid/ns/mnt the mount namespace

/proc/pid/ns/uts the UTS namespace

/proc/pid/ns/ipc the IPC namespace

/proc/pid/ns/net the network namespace

/proc/pid/ns/pid the PID namespace

/proc/pid/ns/user the user namespace

/proc/pid/root the root directory

/proc/pid/cwd the working directory respectively

-m, --mount[=file] Enter the mount namespace. If no file is specified, enter the mount namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter the mount namespace specified by file.

-u, --uts[=file] Enter the UTS namespace. If no file is specified, enter the UTS namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter the UTS namespace specified by file.

-i, --ipc[=file] Enter the IPC namespace. If no file is specified, enter the IPC namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter the IPC namespace specified by file.

-n, --net[=file] Enter the network namespace. If no file is specified, enter the network namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter the network namespace specified by file.

-p, --pid[=file] Enter the PID namespace. If no file is specified, enter the PID namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter the PID namespace specified by file.

-U, --user[=file] Enter the user namespace. If no file is specified, enter the user namespace of the target process. If file is specified, enter the user namespace specified by file. See also the --setuid and --setgid options.

-G, --setgid gid Set the group ID which will be used in the entered user namespace.

-S, --setuid uid Set the user ID which will be used in the entered user namespace.

-r, --root[=directory] Set the root directory. If no directory is specified, set the root directory to the root directory of the target process. If directory is specified, set the root directory to the specified directory.

-w, --wd[=directory] Set the working directory. If no directory is specified, set the working directory to the working directory of the target process. If directory is specified, set the working directory to the specified directory.

-F, --no-fork Do not fork before exec'ing the specified program. By default, when entering a PID namespace, nsenter calls fork before calling exec so that any children will also be in the newly entered PID namespace.

-V, --version Display version information and exit.

-h, --help Display help text and exit.

## SEE ALSO

setns (2), clone (2)

## AUTHOR

Eric Biederman

## AVAILABILITY

The nsenter command is part of the util-linux package and is available from

Linux Kernel Archive