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Podman: --userns=keep-id and --security-opt label=disable are never applied on the Docker Compose path
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Description
## The problem
`getPodmanArgs()` — which adds `--security-opt label=disable` and, for a non-root `remoteUser`, `--userns=keep-id` — lives in `src/spec-node/singleContainer.ts` and is typed to `DevContainerFromDockerfileConfig | DevContainerFromImageConfig`. `src/spec-node/dockerCompose.ts` contains no podman handling at all, so a compose-based dev container on rootless podman gets neither flag.
Result: with rootless podman, the host user maps to container **root**, so a workspace bind mount appears as `root:0` inside and the non-root `remoteUser` cannot write to it.
## Reproduction
devcontainer CLI 0.87.0, podman 5.8.2 rootless, Linux. Two configs differing only in single-container vs compose, both `"remoteUser": "vscode"`, same base image.
`repro-sc/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json`
```json
{ "name": "sc", "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu", "remoteUser": "vscode" }
```
`repro-co/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json` + `docker-compose.yml`
```json
{ "name": "co", "dockerComposeFile": "docker-compose.yml", "service": "app",
"workspaceFolder": "/workspace", "remoteUser": "vscode" }
```
```yaml
services:
app:
image: mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu
command: sleep infinity
volumes: [ "..:/workspace:cached" ]
```
```
devcontainer up --workspace-folder repro-sc --docker-path $(which podman) --docker-compose-path $(which docker-compose)
devcontainer up --workspace-folder repro-co --docker-path $(which podman) --docker-compose-path $(which docker-compose)
```
`--docker-path`/`--docker-compose-path` are explicit only to make podman detection unambiguous; `lookupCLIVariant` correctly reports Podman in both runs.
## Result
```
podman inspect --format '{{.HostConfig.UsernsMode}} {{.HostConfig.SecurityOpt}}'
private [label=disable]
podman inspect --format '{{.HostConfig.UsernsMode}} {{.HostConfig.SecurityOpt}}'
(empty) []
```
Both workspaces are `dev:1000` on the host:
| | workspace owner inside | write as `remoteUser` |
|---|---|---|
| single container | `vscode:1000` | OK |
| compose | `root:0` | **Permission denied** |
## Expected
The compose path should apply the same podman handling as the single-container path — emitting the flags into the generated `docker-compose.devcontainer.*.yml` override (`userns_mode`, `security_opt`) for the primary service.
## Related but different
#1004 / #1018 (omit `keep-id` for root) and #1284 / #1285 (derive the mapping from the remote user's real UID/GID) all concern *how* `getPodmanArgs` should behave. This is that the compose path never calls it. Whatever #1285 settles for the mapping should presumably apply to both paths.
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