---
name: "debspawn-login"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "debspawn"
version: "0.6.4-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/debspawn-login"
---

# debspawn-login(1)

Open interactive shell session in a container

## NAME

debspawn-login - Open interactive shell session in a container

## SYNOPSIS

**debspawn login** \[-h\|--help\] \[--variant\] \[-a\|--arch\] \[--suite\] \[--persistent\] \[--allow\] \[--boot\] {NAME}

## DESCRIPTION

This command enters an interactive shell session in a container that is normally used for building. This can be useful to inspect the build environment, or to manually customize the container image for special applications if the **--persistent** flag is set.

## OPTIONS

NAME

The name of the container image (usually a distribution suite name).

\-h\|--help

Print brief help information about available commands.

- \--variant

  Set the variant of the selected image, that was used for bootstrapping.

\-a\|--arch

The architecture of the base image that should be selected.

- \--suite

  Explicitly set a suite name (instead of having it derived from the container name).

- \--persistent

  Make changes done in the session persistent.

- \--allow

  List one or more additional permissions to grant the container. Takes a comma-separated list of capability names.

- \--boot

  Boot container image (requires the image to contain an init system).

## SEE ALSO

[debspawn(1)](/debspawn/1.md), [systemd-nspawn(1)](/systemd-nspawn/1.md).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp \<mak@debian.org\>.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2018-2022 Matthias Klumpp\