[Suggestion] A way to specify container storage location and/or make it readable by user

[chrisisbd]

I am running distrobox 1.4.2 on a Debian 12 system, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 in a container to provide a legacy python 2.7 environment.

There is one significant annoyance, the container files down in ~/.local/share/containers aren't all readable by the user where they have been installed. Thus whenever I issue a 'find' command I get a whole crop of permission denied messages which often rather overwhelm what I'm looking for.

Could there be a configuration option to set the directory for the container data? Then I could put it in /var or somewhere like that. Alternatively, is it really necessary to have the files owned by (non-existent) user 100000, can they not be owned by the installing user?

[jamcinnes2]

Same issue here. This causes my backup program to complain that it can't read some of my files.

[chrisisbd]

I have overcome this problem by using ACLs (setfacl command) so that I can read the files in spite of the basic permissions/ However I still think this issue needs to be fixed somehow.