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authorEgor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>2022-03-22 00:05:40 +0300
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@@ -14,13 +14,21 @@ after being mounted in the container.
Case in point:
- docker run -it --rm -v "$( pwd ):/data" alpine touch /data/test.txt
+{% capture cmd1 %}
+docker run -it --rm -v "$( pwd ):/data" alpine touch /data/test.txt
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd1 %}
would create file ./test.txt owned by root:root.
You can fix that by using the `--user` parameter:
- docker run -it --rm -v "$( pwd ):/data" --user "$( id -u ):$( id -g )" alpine touch /data/test.txt
+{% capture cmd1 %}
+docker run -it --rm -v "$( pwd ):/data" --user "$( id -u ):$( id -g )" alpine touch /data/test.txt
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd1 %}
That would create file ./test.txt owned by the current user (if the current
working directory is writable by the current user, of course).
@@ -40,36 +48,54 @@ How do you run the service as regular user though?
It's tempting to use the `USER` directive in the Dockerfile, but that can be
overridden by `--user`:
- $ cat Dockerfile
- FROM alpine
-
- RUN addgroup --gid 9099 test-group && \
- adduser \
- --disabled-password \
- --gecos '' \
- --home /home/test-user \
- --ingroup test-group \
- --uid 9099 \
- test-user
-
- RUN touch /root.txt
- USER test-user:test-group
- RUN touch /home/test-user/test-user.txt
-
- CMD id && stat -c '%U %G' /root.txt && stat -c '%U %G' /home/test-user/test-user.txt
-
- $ docker build -t id .
- ...
-
- $ docker run -it --rm id
- uid=9099(test-user) gid=9099(test-group)
- root root
- test-user test-group
-
- $ docker run -it --rm --user root id
- uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),20(dialout),26(tape),27(video)
- root root
- test-user test-group
+{% capture cmd1 %}
+cat Dockerfile
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out1 %}
+FROM alpine
+
+RUN addgroup --gid 9099 test-group && \
+ adduser \
+ --disabled-password \
+ --gecos '' \
+ --home /home/test-user \
+ --ingroup test-group \
+ --uid 9099 \
+ test-user
+
+RUN touch /root.txt
+USER test-user:test-group
+RUN touch /home/test-user/test-user.txt
+
+CMD id && stat -c '%U %G' /root.txt && stat -c '%U %G' /home/test-user/test-user.txt
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd2 %}
+docker build -t id .
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd3 %}
+docker run -it --rm id
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out3 %}
+uid=9099(test-user) gid=9099(test-group)
+root root
+test-user test-group
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd4 %}
+docker run -it --rm --user root id
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out4 %}
+uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),20(dialout),26(tape),27(video)
+root root
+test-user test-group
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd1 out=out1 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd2 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd3 out=out3 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd4 out=out4 %}
I suppose that's the reason why many popular images override ENTRYPOINT, using
a custom script (and `gosu`, which is basically `sudo`, I think) to forcefully
@@ -89,16 +115,32 @@ For example, let's try to map ./data to /data inside a Redis container (this
assumes ./data doesn't exist and you're running as regular user with UID 1000;
press Ctrl+C to stop Redis):
- $ mkdir data
-
- $ stat -c '%u' data
- 1000
-
- $ docker run -it --rm --name redis -v "$( pwd )/data:/data" redis:6.0
- ...
-
- $ stat -c '%u' data
- 999
+{% capture cmd1 %}
+mkdir data
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd2 %}
+stat -c '%u' data
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out2 %}
+1000
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd3 %}
+docker run -it --rm --name redis -v "$( pwd )/data:/data" redis:6.0
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd4 %}
+stat -c '%u' data
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out4 %}
+999
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd1 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd2 out=out2 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd3 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd4 out=out4 %}
As you can see, ./data changed its owner from user with UID 1000 (the host
user) to user with UID 999 (the `redis` user inside the container).
@@ -111,16 +153,32 @@ explicitly accommodates for it by _not_ changing its owner if the container is
run as anybody other than root.
For example:
- $ mkdir data
-
- $ stat -c '%u' data
- 1000
-
- $ docker run -it --rm --name redis -v "$( pwd )/data:/data" --user "$( id -u ):$( id -g )" redis:6.0
- ...
-
- $ stat -c '%u' data
- 1000
+{% capture cmd1 %}
+mkdir data
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd2 %}
+stat -c '%u' data
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out2 %}
+1000
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd3 %}
+docker run -it --rm --name redis -v "$( pwd )/data:/data" --user "$( id -u ):$( id -g )" redis:6.0
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% capture cmd4 %}
+stat -c '%u' data
+{% endcapture %}
+{% capture out4 %}
+1000
+{% endcapture %}
+
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd1 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd2 out=out2 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd3 %}
+{% include shell.html cmd=cmd4 out=out4 %}
Sometimes `--user` is not enough though.
That specified user is almost certainly missing from container's /etc/passwd,