Re: Setting hostname while spawning pasta

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 13 May 2024 13:59:22 +0200
Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com> wrote:

> [...]
>
> I don't have an issue with the hostname suggestion but it will not solve 
> the problem of users not understanding that they are in a new user 
> namespace. Maybe a more universal solution is to print a log line with a 
> hint when no explicit command is given. Something like: "Spawning new 
> shell in user+network namespace". That at least tells the user what 
> pasta did and works even in cases where the prompt does not contain the 
> hostname.

Hmm, sure, that's probably the clearest indication possible in the
general case (minus the fact that it doesn't really help for
pasta-in-pasta as Danish pointed out).

On the other hand I would find it quite noisy, and the man page already
explains what we're doing. Sure, one could run it with '-q', but then
it's more typing just to avoid that noise.

By the way, I'm (sloowly) reworking the website, and the namespacing
aspect is something I plan to show in a separate diagram as well.

Plus, I guess we wouldn't print that when a command is explicitly
given, but then 'pasta' would print that message, while 'pasta -- sh'
wouldn't, so things would quite easily look inconsistent.

All in all, I have quite a preference against an additional message, but
if more people on the list think it's a nice addition, then let's go
for it.

-- 
Stefano