Bug 1226056

Installation of Podman:

https://documentation.suse.com/sle-micro/6.0/html/Micro-podman/index.html#podman-installation

The command-line suggested, "sudo transactional-update pkg install podman*", is problematic because shell globbing rules apply that podman* BEFORE the sudo command is run. Here's an example demonstrating this:

If I'm logged in as an unprivileged user and am in my home directory and there exists a file named podman.txt

user@slem6:~> ls
bin  podman.txt

and then I run 

user@slem6:~> sudo transactional-update pkg install podman*
...
2024-06-06 11:59:32 Executing `zypper -R /tmp/transactional-update-DGHXWe install podman.txt`:
...
'podman.txt' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.

See how the * shell glob character turned the podman* into podman.txt because it existed in the local non-root user's home current working directory and this happened BEFORE sudo but then sudo was asked to run a zypper command to install podman.txt which is not intended or valid. 

If podman* was written as podman\*  then the * would be escaped and shell globbing rules would not apply before sudo is ran and instead literally podman* would be passed to zypper which is the intended behavior. You could also escape it by using quotes. Here's two examples:

user@slem6:~> sudo transactional-update pkg install podman\*
...
2024-06-06 12:01:52 Executing `zypper -R /tmp/transactional-update-8ImQ4F install podman*`
...
The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  podman-docker podman-remote
...

or

user@slem6:~> sudo transactional-update pkg install 'podman*'
...
2024-06-06 12:02:41 Executing `zypper -R /tmp/transactional-update-Gqn0Qu install podman*`:
...
The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  podman-docker podman-remote