diff --git a/src/lxc/tools/lxc_attach.c b/src/lxc/tools/lxc_attach.c
index 51fd536a2..4dd38839a 100644
--- a/src/lxc/tools/lxc_attach.c
+++ b/src/lxc/tools/lxc_attach.c
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ static int add_to_simple_array(char ***array, ssize_t *capacity, char *value)
 
 static int my_parser(struct lxc_arguments* args, int c, char* arg)
 {
+	char **it;
+	char *del;
 	int ret;
 
 	switch (c) {
@@ -125,6 +127,30 @@ static int my_parser(struct lxc_arguments* args, int c, char* arg)
 		break;
 	case 's':
 		namespace_flags = 0;
+
+		/* The identifiers for namespaces used with lxc-attach as given
+		 * on the manpage do not align with the standard identifiers.
+		 * This affects network, mount, and uts namespaces. The standard
+		 * identifiers are: "mnt", "uts", and "net" whereas lxc-attach
+		 * uses "MOUNT", "UTSNAME", and "NETWORK". So let's use some
+		 * cheap memmove()s to replace them by their standard
+		 * identifiers. Let's illustrate this with an example:
+		 * Assume the string:
+		 *
+		 *	"IPC|MOUNT|PID"
+		 *
+		 * then we memmove()
+		 *
+		 *	dest: del + 1 == ONT|PID
+		 *	src:  del + 3 == NT|PID
+		 */
+		while ((del = strstr(arg, "MOUNT")))
+			memmove(del + 1, del + 3, strlen(del) - 2);
+
+		for (it = (char *[]){"NETWORK", "UTSNAME", NULL}; it && *it; it++)
+			while ((del = strstr(arg, *it)))
+				memmove(del + 3, del + 7, strlen(del) - 6);
+
 		ret = lxc_fill_namespace_flags(arg, &namespace_flags);
 		if (ret)
 			return -1;
diff --git a/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c b/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c
index 6c9423fae..72ea00ce0 100644
--- a/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c
+++ b/src/lxc/tools/lxc_unshare.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static void usage(char *cmd)
 	fprintf(stderr, "\t -i <iface>   : Interface name to be moved into container (presumably with NETWORK unsharing set)\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "\t -H <hostname>: Set the hostname in the container\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "\t -d           : Daemonize (do not wait for container to exit)\n");
-	fprintf(stderr, "\t -M           : reMount default fs inside container (/proc /dev/shm /dev/mqueue)\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, "\t -M           : Remount default fs inside container (/proc /dev/shm /dev/mqueue)\n");
 	_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 
@@ -151,12 +151,12 @@ static int do_start(void *arg)
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
+	char *del;
+	char **it, **args;
 	int opt, status;
 	int ret;
 	char *namespaces = NULL;
-	char **args;
-	int flags = 0;
-	int daemonize = 0;
+	int flags = 0, daemonize = 0;
 	uid_t uid = 0; /* valid only if (flags & CLONE_NEWUSER) */
 	pid_t pid;
 	struct my_iflist *tmpif, *my_iflist = NULL;
@@ -213,6 +213,28 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	if (ret)
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 
+	/* The identifiers for namespaces used with lxc-unshare as given on the
+	 * manpage do not align with the standard identifiers. This affects
+	 * network, mount, and uts namespaces. The standard identifiers are:
+	 * "mnt", "uts", and "net" whereas lxc-unshare uses "MOUNT", "UTSNAME",
+	 * and "NETWORK". So let's use some cheap memmove()s to replace them by
+	 * their standard identifiers. Let's illustrate this with an example:
+	 * Assume the string:
+	 *
+	 *	"IPC|MOUNT|PID"
+	 *
+	 * then we memmove()
+	 *
+	 *	dest: del + 1 == ONT|PID
+	 *	src:  del + 3 == NT|PID
+	 */
+	while ((del = strstr(namespaces, "MOUNT")))
+		memmove(del + 1, del + 3, strlen(del) - 2);
+
+	for (it = (char *[]){"NETWORK", "UTSNAME", NULL}; it && *it; it++)
+		while ((del = strstr(namespaces, *it)))
+			memmove(del + 3, del + 7, strlen(del) - 6);
+
 	ret = lxc_fill_namespace_flags(namespaces, &flags);
 	if (ret)
 		usage(argv[0]);