I’m trying to create a container that uses ENV vars (set in the dockerfile at build, or in the docker-compose.yml), to create a user and group, and run a service as that new user. The use case is that I want a container to run unison, expose a volume form it, and mount it on an nginx container via …

Create user and group from ENV vars and run service as user

stefanlasiewski (Stefan Lasiewski) January 20, 2018, 1:42am 2

Martin, did you ever figure out how to create a user from ENV vars when the container is started? I have a similar question here.

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