debspawn-login(1)

debspawn-login1

Open interactive shell session in a container

Usage

debspawn login [{-h | --help}] [--variant] [{-a | --arch}] [--suite] [--persistent] [--allow] [--boot] NAME

Overview

This command enters an interactive shell session in a container that is normally used for building. This can be useful to inspect the build environment, or to manually customize the container image for special applications if the --persistent flag is set.

Options

NAME

The name of the container image (usually a distribution suite name).

-h|--help

Print brief help information about available commands.

--variant

Set the variant of the selected image, that was used for bootstrapping.

-a|--arch

The architecture of the base image that should be selected.

--suite

Explicitly set a suite name (instead of having it derived from the container name).

--persistent

Make changes done in the session persistent.

--allow

List one or more additional permissions to grant the container. Takes a comma-separated list of capability names.

--boot

Boot container image (requires the image to contain an init system).

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12–13

--boot since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --suite since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Author

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]>.

From debspawn 0.6.4-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.