Podman: No config files created in ubuntu WSL2 when rootless

[daltschu22]

/kind bug

Description

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Run Podman info not as root

2. Run podman run container not as root

Describe the results you received:

No files created in the container folder

Describe the results you expected:

Config files created in container folder.

Additional information you deem important (e.g. issue happens only occasionally):
Running ubuntu 18.04 on WSL2.

Output of podman version:

podman version 1.8.2

Output of podman info --debug:

$ podman info --debug
debug:
  compiler: gc
  git commit: ""
  go version: go1.10.1
  podman version: 1.8.2
host:
  BuildahVersion: 1.14.3
  CgroupVersion: v1
  Conmon:
    package: 'conmon: /usr/libexec/podman/conmon'
    path: /usr/libexec/podman/conmon
    version: 'conmon version 2.0.14, commit: '
  Distribution:
    distribution: ubuntu
    version: "18.04"
  IDMappings:
    gidmap:
    - container_id: 0
      host_id: 1000
      size: 1
    - container_id: 1
      host_id: 165536
      size: 65536
    uidmap:
    - container_id: 0
      host_id: 1000
      size: 1
    - container_id: 1
      host_id: 165536
      size: 65536
  MemFree: 6091116544
  MemTotal: 13340864512
  OCIRuntime:
    name: runc
    package: 'cri-o-runc: /usr/lib/cri-o-runc/sbin/runc'
    path: /usr/lib/cri-o-runc/sbin/runc
    version: 'runc version spec: 1.0.1-dev'
  SwapFree: 4294967296
  SwapTotal: 4294967296
  arch: amd64
  cpus: 12
  eventlogger: file
  hostname: dave-pc
  kernel: 4.19.84-microsoft-standard
  os: linux
  rootless: true
  slirp4netns:
    Executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns
    Package: 'slirp4netns: /usr/bin/slirp4netns'
    Version: |-
      slirp4netns version 0.4.3
      commit: unknown
  uptime: 7h 8m 16.38s (Approximately 0.29 days)
registries:
  search:
  - docker.io
  - quay.io
store:
  ConfigFile: /home/me/.config/containers/storage.conf
  ContainerStore:
    number: 6
  GraphDriverName: vfs
  GraphOptions: {}
  GraphRoot: /home/me/.local/share/containers/storage
  GraphStatus: {}
  ImageStore:
    number: 8
  RunRoot: /tmp/run-1000/containers
  VolumePath: /home/me/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes

Package info (e.g. output of rpm -q podman or apt list podman):

podman/unknown,now 1.8.2~2 amd64 [installed]

Additional environment details (AWS, VirtualBox, physical, etc.):
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

[mheon]

We've changed rootless Podman to no longer generate configuration files in the user's home directory automatically, so this is expected behavior, I believe.

[rhatdan]

Yup this works as designed.

[daltschu22]

Thank you! I was basing my experience off this article
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl2

And couldnt find if that had changed since it was written when googling around. This is good to know. Much appreciated!

[NikolausDemmel]

Is there a way to still manually generate a default config file on demand?