Re: Feature request: hostname namespaces in guix environment

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Vinícius,

Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira <vini.ipsmaker@gmail.com> skribis:

> Right now my hostname is leaking to the container and that is certainly a
> hint to my main persona.

AFAICS, ‘guix environment -C’ already starts contains in a separate UTS
namespace (see ‘%namespaces’ in (gnu build linux-containers)).

However, it does not attempt to change the host name, since you get a
non-zero UID inside that environment, you cannot change it.

What we could do is add a ‘--uid’ option to ‘guix environment’ and/or a
‘--host-name’ option.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.