Why isn’t there a way to choose the user PUID and PGID to avoid permission issues? Also discourse is a public facing software, with user uploaded content so are stuff running as root by default? There are many ways to fix this, from the Dockerfile itself, to post-boot scripts like s6-overlay. I s…

If I can’t choose their PUID and PGID this means nothing. Permission issues will still happen, and people will have no idea what supposed user/PUID PGID it should be to fix it

[image] vitorl: this means nothing I don’t think that word means what you think in means. Or rather, “I don’t know how to change them” does not mean “they can’t be changed”. [image] vitorl: I suggest creating a user called discourse inside the container and allowing us to start the docke…

I’d want every relevant user inside it to have the same PID/GID of my host user, is there any particular reason there are multiple users inside the container? Regardless, it seems the only way to fix the permissions if you mess it is to do a clean install. How I am going to know which folder need t…

Choose the user PUID and PGID inside the container

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schleifer (Andrew Schleifer) April 3, 2019, 2:59pm 2

Have you checked? There are multiple non-priviliged users for the different services in the container.

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Choose the user PUID and PGID inside the container

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