Podman "Error: no registries found in registries.conf, a registry must be provided" while logging/pulling from docker.io

[YevheniiPokhvalii]

How to integrate podman with docker.io by default?

According to these articles:
https://www.mankier.com/5/containers-registries.conf
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/manage-container-registries
you can configure a default registry by adding the file $HOME/.config/containers/registries.conf.

I added this file and filled it out with these details:

$ cat .config/containers/registries.conf
[[registry]]
location = "docker.io"

When I try to log in to DockerHub with podman, I am getting:

$ podman login
Error: no registries found in registries.conf, a registry must be provided

So I have to login explicitly with:

$ podman login docker.io

of with:

podman login -u user -p pass -v docker.io

The same situation is with pulling a custom docker image:

$ podman pull epamedp/codebase-operator
Error: short-name "epamedp/codebase-operator" did not resolve to an alias and no unqualified-search registries are defined in "/home/user/.config/containers/registries.conf"

And again I have to indicate the registry explicitly:

$ podman pull docker.io/epamedp/codebase-operator

Could you help with this configuration?
P.S. Also, according to the article, it is advisable to indicate docker.io/library as a registry prefix and I also did not figure out how to do it.
I tried to modify /etc/containers/registries.conf as well. Still, the same issue.
I am using:

$ podman --version
podman version 3.4.4

[YevheniiPokhvalii]

I am answering my question.
I managed to fix the issue by modifying $HOME/.config/containers/registries.conf with one line:

$ cat .config/containers/registries.conf
unqualified-search-registries = ["docker.io"]

[baude]

may we close this?

[YevheniiPokhvalii]

may we close this?

Sure, you can close it or convert it to discussion in case there is some advice on this matter.