I just saw in the podman manual: Rootless mode Podman can also be used as non-root user. When podman runs in rootless mode, a user namespace is automatically created for the user, defined in /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid. Containers created by a non-root user are not visible to other users and are not seen or managed by podman running as root. It is required to have multiple uids/gids set for an user. Be sure the user is present in the files /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid. If you have a recent version of usermod, you can execute the following commands to add the ranges to the files $ sudo usermod --add-subuids 10000-75535 USERNAME $ sudo usermod --add-subgids 10000-75535 USERNAME Or just add the content manually. $ echo USERNAME:10000:65536 >> /etc/subuid $ echo USERNAME:10000:65536 >> /etc/subgid See the subuid(5) and subgid(5) man pages for more information. Images are pulled under XDG_DATA_HOME when specified, otherwise in the home directory of the user under .local/share/containers/storage. Currently the slirp4netns package is required to be installed to create a network device, otherwise rootless containers need to run in the network namespace of the host. @tbechtold, ignore my question from comment 2. The answer is in the bug title. I think the manual documentation resolve the bug, don't you think?