This client can be run as a Podman container, with 3 available container base options for you to choose from:

These containers offer a simple monitoring-mode service for the OneDrive Client for Linux.

The instructions below have been validated on:

• Fedora 40

The instructions below will utilise the 'edge' tag, however this can be substituted for any of the other docker tags such as 'latest' from the table above if desired.

The 'edge' Docker Container will align closer to all documentation and features, where as 'latest' is the release version from a static point in time. The 'latest' tag however may contain bugs and/or issues that will have been fixed, and those fixes are contained in 'edge'.

Additionally there are specific version release tags for each release. Refer to https://hub.docker.com/r/driveone/onedrive/tags for any other Docker tags you may be interested in.

1. Install 'podman' as per your distribution platform's instructions if not already installed.
2. Disable 'SELinux' as per your distribution platform's instructions
3. Test 'podman' by running a test container
4. Prepare the required podman volumes to store the configuration and data
5. Run the 'onedrive' container and perform authorisation
6. Running the 'onedrive' container under 'podman'

Install 'podman' as per your distribution platform's instructions if not already installed.

In order to run the Docker container under 'podman', SELinux must be disabled. Without doing this, when the application is authenticated in the steps below, the following error will be presented:

ERROR: The local file system returned an error with the following message:
  Error Message:    /onedrive/conf/refresh_token: Permission denied

The database cannot be opened. Please check the permissions of ~/.config/onedrive/items.sqlite3

The only known work-around for the above problem at present is to disable SELinux. Please refer to your distribution platform's instructions on how to perform this step.

• Fedora: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/selinux-changing-states-and-modes/#_disabling_selinux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3176

Post disabling SELinux and reboot your system, confirm that getenforce returns Disabled:

$ getenforce
Disabled

If you are still experiencing permission issues despite disabling SELinux, please read https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/container-permission-denied-errors

Test that 'podman' is operational for your 'non-root' user, as per below:

[alex@fedora40-podman ~]$ podman pull fedora
Resolved "fedora" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf)
Trying to pull registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob b30887322388 done   | 
Copying config a1cd3cbf8a done   | 
Writing manifest to image destination
a1cd3cbf8adaa422629f2fcdc629fd9297138910a467b11c66e5ddb2c2753dff
[alex@fedora40-podman ~]$ podman run fedora /bin/echo "Welcome to the Podman World"
Welcome to the Podman World
[alex@fedora40-podman ~]$ 

The 'onedrive' Docker container requires 2 podman volumes to operate:

• Config Volume
• Data Volume

The first volume is the configuration volume that stores all the applicable application configuration + current runtime state. In a non-containerised environment, this normally resides in ~/.config/onedrive - in a containerised environment this is stored in the volume tagged as /onedrive/conf

The second volume is the data volume, where all your data from Microsoft OneDrive is stored locally. This volume is mapped to an actual directory point on your local filesystem and this is stored in the volume tagged as /onedrive/data

Create the 'config' volume with the following command:

podman volume create onedrive_conf

This will create a podman volume labeled onedrive_conf, where all configuration of your onedrive account will be stored. You can add a custom config file in this location at a later point in time if required.

Create the 'data' volume with the following command:

podman volume create onedrive_data

This will create a podman volume labeled onedrive_data and will map to a path on your local filesystem. This is where your data from Microsoft OneDrive will be stored. Keep in mind that:

• The owner of this specified folder must not be root
• Podman will attempt to change the permissions of the volume to the user the container is configured to run as

ROOT level privileges prohibited!

The 'onedrive' client within the container first needs to be authorised with your Microsoft account. This is achieved by initially running podman in interactive mode.

Run the podman image with the commands below and make sure to change the value of ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR to the actual onedrive data directory on your filesystem that you wish to use (e.g. export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR="/home/abraunegg/OneDrive").

It is also a requirement that the container be run using a non-root uid and gid, you must insert a non-root UID and GID (e.g. export ONEDRIVE_UID=1000 and export ONEDRIVE_GID=1000). The script below will use id to evaluate your system environment to use the correct values.

export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR="${HOME}/OneDrive"
export ONEDRIVE_UID=`id -u`
export ONEDRIVE_GID=`id -g`
mkdir -p ${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}
podman run -it --name onedrive --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
    -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
    -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
    driveone/onedrive:edge

export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR="${HOME}/OneDrive"
export ONEDRIVE_UID=`id -u`
export ONEDRIVE_GID=`id -g`
mkdir -p ${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}
podman run -it --name onedrive --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
    --userns=keep-id \
    -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
    -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
    driveone/onedrive:edge

export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR="${HOME}/OneDrive"
export ONEDRIVE_UID=`id -u`
export ONEDRIVE_GID=`id -g`
mkdir -p ${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}
podman run -it --name onedrive --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
    --userns=keep-id \
    -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
    -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
    -e PODMAN=1 \
    --label "io.containers.autoupdate=image" \
    driveone/onedrive:edge

When the Podman container successfully starts:

• You will be asked to open a specific link using your web browser
• Login to your Microsoft Account and give the application the permission
• After giving the permission, you will be redirected to a blank page
• Copy the URI of the blank page into the application prompt to authorise the application

Once the 'onedrive' application is authorised, the client will automatically start monitoring your ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR for data changes to be uploaded to OneDrive. Files stored on OneDrive will be downloaded to this location.

If the client is working as expected, you can detach from the container with Ctrl+p, Ctrl+q.

podman ps -f name=onedrive

podman logs onedrive

podman stop onedrive

podman start onedrive

podman rm -f onedrive

Podman supports running containers as a systemd service and also auto updating of the container images. Using the existing running container you can generate a systemd unit file to be installed by the root user. To have your container image auto-update with podman, it must first be created with the label "io.containers.autoupdate=image" mentioned in step 5 above.

cd /tmp
podman generate systemd --new --restart-policy on-failure --name -f onedrive
/tmp/container-onedrive.service

# copy the generated systemd unit file to the systemd path and reload the daemon

cp -Z ~/container-onedrive.service /usr/lib/systemd/system
systemctl daemon-reload

#optionally enable it to startup on boot

systemctl enable container-onedrive.service

#check status

systemctl status container-onedrive

#start/stop/restart container as a systemd service

systemctl stop container-onedrive
systemctl start container-onedrive

To update the image using podman (Ad-hoc)

podman auto-update

To update the image using systemd (Automatic/Scheduled)

# Enable the podman-auto-update.timer service at system start:

systemctl enable podman-auto-update.timer

# Start the service

systemctl start podman-auto-update.timer

# Containers with the autoupdate label will be updated on the next scheduled timer

systemctl list-timers --all

The 'onedrive' client should run in default configuration, however you can change this default configuration by placing a custom config file in the onedrive_conf podman volume. First download the default config from here
Then put it into your onedrive_conf volume path, which can be found with:

podman volume inspect onedrive_conf

Or you can map your own config folder to the config volume. Make sure to copy all files from the volume into your mapped folder first.

The detailed document for the config can be found here: Application Configuration Options for the OneDrive Client for Linux

There are many ways to do this, the easiest is probably to do the following:

1. Create a second podman config volume (replace work with your desired name): podman volume create onedrive_conf_work
2. And start a second podman monitor container (again replace work with your desired name):

export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR_WORK="/home/abraunegg/OneDriveWork"
export ONEDRIVE_UID=`id -u`
export ONEDRIVE_GID=`id -g`
mkdir -p ${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR_WORK}
podman run -it --name onedrive_work --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
    --userns=keep-id \
    -v onedrive_conf_work:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
    -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR_WORK}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
    -e PODMAN=1 \
    --label "io.containers.autoupdate=image" \
    driveone/onedrive:edge

Verbose Output:

podman run -e ONEDRIVE_VERBOSE=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:edge

Debug Output:

podman run -e ONEDRIVE_DEBUG=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:edge

Perform a --resync:

podman run -e ONEDRIVE_RESYNC=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:edge

Perform a --resync and --verbose:

podman run -e ONEDRIVE_RESYNC=1 -e ONEDRIVE_VERBOSE=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:edge

Perform a --logout:

podman run -it -e ONEDRIVE_LOGOUT=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:edge

Perform a --logout and re-authenticate:

podman run -it -e ONEDRIVE_REAUTH=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:edge

You can also build your own image instead of pulling the one from hub.docker.com:

git clone https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive
cd onedrive
podman build . -t local-onedrive -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile

There are alternate, smaller images available by building Dockerfile-debian or Dockerfile-alpine. These multi-stage builder pattern Dockerfiles require Docker version at least 17.05.

podman build . -t local-onedrive-debian -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-debian
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" --userns=keep-id local-onedrive-debian:latest

podman build . -t local-onedrive-alpine -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-alpine
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" --userns=keep-id local-onedrive-alpine:latest

Compatible with:

• Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi 2
• Raspberry Pi Zero
• Raspberry Pi 3
• Raspberry Pi 4

podman build . -t local-onedrive-armhf -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-debian
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" --userns=keep-id local-onedrive-armhf:latest

podman build . -t local-onedrive-aarch64 -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-debian
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" --userns=keep-id local-onedrive-aarch64:latest