diff --git a/tests/p_podman/15_podman_socket_tests.sh b/tests/p_podman/15_podman_socket_tests.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Author: Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez <carlosrodrifernandez@gmail.com>
+
+t_Log "Running $0 - podman socket tests"
+
+if [ "$centos_ver" -lt 8 ] ; then
+  t_Log "SKIP $0: only run on centos stream 8 or greater"
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+useradd podman-remote-test
+loginctl enable-linger podman-remote-test
+output_file=$(mktemp)
+trap "loginctl terminate-user podman-remote-test && loginctl disable-linger podman-remote-test && sleep 1 && userdel -r podman-remote-test && rm -f ${output_file}" EXIT
+
+su -l podman-remote-test > ${output_file} 2>&1 <<EOF
+set -e
+export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/\$(id -u)
+systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
+podman --url unix://run/user/\$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock run --name simple-test-with-port-mapping -d -p 8080:80 docker.io/nginx
+pid=\$(systemctl --user show --property MainPID --value podman.service)
+while [ "\${pid}" -ne 0 ] && [ -d /proc/\${pid} ]; do sleep 1; echo "Waiting for podman to exit"; done
+echo "Continuing"
+podman --url unix://run/user/\$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock ps | grep -q -e simple-test-with-port-mapping
+podman --url unix://run/user/\$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock container rm -f simple-test-with-port-mapping
+systemctl --user disable --now podman.socket
+EOF
+
+if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
+  cat ${output_file}
+  t_CheckExitStatus 1
+fi
+t_CheckExitStatus 0
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