#!/usr/bin/python3 # Copyright 2024 Helmut Grohne # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3 """Unshare a UTS (and user and mount) namespace and change the hostname.""" import os import pathlib import socket import sys import tempfile if __file__.split("/")[-2:-1] == ["examples"]: sys.path.insert(0, "/".join(__file__.split("/")[:-2])) import linuxnamespaces def change_file(location: pathlib.Path, content: bytes | str) -> None: if isinstance(content, str): content = content.encode("ascii") try: st = location.stat() except FileNotFoundError as err: raise ValueError( f"cannot change non-existent file: {location!r}" ) from err if st.st_size == len(content) and location.read_bytes() == content: return with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tfile: tfile.write(content) # In Python >= 3.12, we should set delete_on_close=False rather than # closing the underlying file object behind tempfile's back. tfile.file.close() linuxnamespaces.bind_mount(tfile.name, location) def main() -> None: hostname = sys.argv[1] linuxnamespaces.unshare_user_idmap( [linuxnamespaces.IDMapping.identity(os.getuid())], [linuxnamespaces.IDMapping.identity(os.getgid())], linuxnamespaces.CloneFlags.NEWUSER | linuxnamespaces.CloneFlags.NEWNS | linuxnamespaces.CloneFlags.NEWUTS, ) socket.sethostname(hostname) etc = pathlib.Path("/etc") change_file(etc / "hostname", f"{hostname}\n") change_file( etc / "hosts", f"""127.0.0.1 {hostname} localhost ::1 {hostname} localhost """, ) os.execlp(os.environ["SHELL"], os.environ["SHELL"]) if __name__ == "__main__": main()