It seems podman doesn't read "remote" in config by now

[hsupu]

I set my containers.conf as below but it didn't work.

[engine] 
remote = true

I believe that the podman should behave like podman -r by default if the remote flag is on.

This feature is documented.

I found the code is here

// EngineConfig contains configuration options used to set up a engine runtime
type EngineConfig struct {
	// Indicates whether the application should be running in Remote mode
	Remote bool `toml:"remote,omitempty"`
}

I saw there is another struct (that looked critical) contains a Remote bool. It's here

// PodmanConfig combines the defaults and settings from the file system with the
// flags given in os.Args. Some runtime state is also stored here.
type PodmanConfig struct {
	*config.Config
	Remote         bool       // Connection to Podman API Service will use RESTful API
}

I found the working function in code is IsRemote which is defined here.

This feature, read remote flag from config file, does it not work by design, or it's just under development so I maybe could try to fix it ?

Thanks!

[rhatdan]

It is supposed to work. Looks like a bug.

[hsupu]

Thank you for quick response. I saw the PR #12871, It's amazing the team could fix this so fast. Thank you all.

[rhatdan]

We aim to please.