NAME

       pw-container - The PipeWire container utility

SYNOPSIS

       pw-container [options] [PROGRAM]

DESCRIPTION

       Run a program in a new security context [1].

       pw-container will create a new temporary unix socket and uses the SecurityContext extension API to create
       a server on this socket with the given properties. Clients created from this server socket will have the
       security properties attached to them.

       This can be used to simulate the behaviour of Flatpak or other containers.

       Without any arguments, pw-container simply creates the new socket and prints the address on stdout. Other
       PipeWire programs can then be run with PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=<socket-address> to connect through this security
       context.

       When PROGRAM is given, the PIPEWIRE_REMOTE env variable will be set and PROGRAM will be passed to
       system(). Argument to PROGRAM need to be properly quoted.

OPTIONS

       -P | --properties=VALUE
           Set extra context properties as a JSON object.

       -r | --remote=NAME
           The name the remote instance to connect to. If left unspecified, a connection is made to the default
           PipeWire instance.

       -h | --help
           Show help.

       --version
           Show version information.

EXIT STATUS

       If the security context was successfully created, pw-container does not exit until terminated with a
       signal. It exits with status 0 if terminated by SIGINT or SIGTERM in this case.

       Otherwise, it exits with nonzero exit status.

EXAMPLES

       pw-container 'pw-dump i 0'

       Run pw-dump of the Core object. Note the difference in the object permissions when running pw-dump with
       and without pw-container.

       pw-container 'pw-dump pw-dump'

       Run pw-dump of itself. Note the difference in the Client security tokens when running pw-dump with and
       without pw-container.

AUTHORS

       The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available
       from <https://pipewire.org>

SEE ALSO

       [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/blob/main/staging/security-
       context/security-context-v1.xml - Creating a security context

PipeWire                                              1.4.9                                      pw-container(1)