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Running container as non-default user on Linux requires manual file permission changes
Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.
It's difficult to get the container to start successfully as the non-default user on Linux without manually changing file permissions to other users.
For example, the user that I want to run the Docker container has ID 1001
. When I run the container, the container user has ID 1000
and therefore cannot work with the volume bound to /home/assetto/server-manager/assetto
(which is owned by 1001
, from the host).
To solve this, I had to manually change the ownership (on the host) of the /assetto
volume and the config.yml
file to user ID 1000
- but this is a different user.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Create an Ubuntu user with an ID besides 1000
- Follow the readme to set up the server
- The server will fail (see
Additional context
for logs)
Expected behavior A way to run the container as a specific user without having to set ownership of files elsewhere
Possibly two build args USER_ID
and GROUP_ID
would help (see https://jtreminio.com/blog/running-docker-containers-as-current-host-user/)
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Desktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: [Ubuntu 22.04]
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Additional context
The error occurred attempting to: Open server manager storage (bolt or json)
The error more specifically is: mkdir assetto/manager: permission denied
I also got an error about creating server_manager.db
but I didn't save the log.
Here to say @Jameskmonger is correct, this is still an issue. I natively run my Docker with a different user and UID, not the standard 1000:1000
. I tried setting the UUID and
GUIDmultiple times with no luck to a user that has permissions... however the ENV VARS do nothing. After changing my folder permissions on my host with
sudo chmod -R 1000:1000 /ac-server` it was finally able to download and get past the permissions issue.
Thanks for the find and creating a ticket, for sure helped me!