NAME

subuser - install, administer, and run desktop applications with Docker.

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)