The fix for this has now been deployed. $ podman pull registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/mariadb Trying to pull registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/mariadb:latest... Getting image source signatures Copying blob 4450681c160a done | Copying blob f3f6883c7527 done | Copying config 2081d6e889 done | Writing manifest to image destination 2081d6e88935c6ade69d4061a0e25e12356f1ea90addeaf6f6fbcf7ca8daf6e2 $ podman run --rm registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/mariadb cat /usr/local/bin/gosu #!/bin/bash u=$1 shift if ! id -u "$u" > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Invalid user: $u" exit 1 fi exec setpriv --reuid="$u" --regid="$u" --clear-groups -- "$@" $ podman run -d --name opensusemariadb -e MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=bob registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/mariadb beda755c5ef9386332b03bc6e153c572be5751865f66fcae149a36c603ee589c (base) $ podman exec opensusemariadb ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD mysql 1 0 1 01:29 ? 00:00:00 mariadbd root 124 0 0 01:29 ? 00:00:00 ps -ef