run_code as a user instead of root

[mishushakov]

• Jupyter Server and Code Interpreter are started as a non-privileged user
• Adds ability to change user by creating a new context
• BREAKING: Default user root > user to match the Sandbox commands.run behavior
• POSSIBLY BREAKING: when cwd is not set and user is root, it will set cwd to /root

Sample code

const ctx = await sbx.createCodeContext({ language: "python", user: "user" })

const code = await sbx.runCode(`import getpass; print(getpass.getuser())`, { context })
console.log(code.logs);

{
    stdout: [ "user\n" ],
    stderr: [],
}

[linear[bot]]

E2B-2123 Permissions: calling `run_code` as a different user

[jakubno]

This won't be probably backwards compatible right?

Can I specify if I want run something as root?

[mishushakov]

Not backwards-compatible. You cannot specify the user, the kernels start as same user as Jupyter. There is a possible some workaround suggested by ChatGPT but it's a bit inconvenient:

[mishushakov]

I created a new template, code-interpreter-v1beta1