Running container as non-root user?

[klaus1k]

Hello, is it possible to have the container run as a non-root user?
I tried adding user: 1000.1000 to the compose file, but it threw a bunch of errors. it apparently can't create a .pm2 folder - creating it manually for that user has no effect.
The mount point is owned by the same user, so that should not be the problem.

immich-public-proxy-2024-11-16T11-20-31.log

[alangrainger]

The container already runs as the non-root node user:

https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy/blob/main/Dockerfile#L17

I'm running this on rootless Podman myself.

Here's the running container, the UID is already 1000:

[klaus1k]

Thanks for the quick reply!
I tried running the container as my user 1001 - for that I got the above errors, but since it is running as 1000 it's perfectly fine for me!
I just assumed that it is running as root, as many other containers in their standard configuration.

[alangrainger]

No probs.

In the future just log into a container and type id or whoami to find details of the running user.

[alangrainger]

I'll close this since the container is already non-root, but feel free to reply with further details so we can figure out what's not working right for you.

Please see my response above ^^^