Let service run as application user instead of root user

[vanthome]

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In the docker world it's best practice to let a containerized service run as non-root. For example Postgres create a postgres user and then in the Dockerfile use USER postgres to let the workload run under that user.. I recommend you also introduce such a user for the official ArangoDB container images.

[vanthome]

Will you solve this or is this to be maintained as is?

[dothebart]

Hi, since this will be a breaking change for existing users we may only do this with an arangodb 4.0 release.

I also remember this being trouble some for mac/windows docker users.

There are two options to have to fix this for you right now:

• derive the container
• start the container with --uid ?