Ownership of bound folders change upon starting containers from Compose

i decided i want my own user on my raspberry pi and moved my containers from Raspbian’s default user pi to my user newpiuser.

now some containers aren’t functioning properly anymore, for example, nzbget and transmission seem unable to write to their volumes, freshrss and plex are functioning properly. and sabnzbd is unavailable on its port 8080

after moving the folders to their new home and running sudo chown -R newpiuser:newpiuser Downloads/ .freshrss/ .nzbget/ .sabnzbd/ .transmission/ and running docker-compose up -d from my own user newpiuser. for some reason, the ownership of all volumes get changed back to Raspbian’s default user pi.

compose file

version: "2.1"
services:

  plex:
    image: linuxserver/plex
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - VERSION=latest
      - UMASK_SET=022 #optional
      - PLEX_CLAIM= #optional
    volumes:
      - /home/newpiuser/.plex/config:/config
      - /home/newpiuser/.plex/data/Storage:/storage
    restart: unless-stopped

  transmission:
    image: linuxserver/transmission
    container_name: transmission
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME=/combustion-release/ #optional
      # - USER=username #optional
      # - PASS=password #optional
    volumes:
      - /home/newpiuser/.transmission:/config
      - /home/newpiuser/Downloads:/downloads
      - /home/newpiuser/Downloads:/watch
    ports:
      - 9091:9091
      - 51413:51413
      - 51413:51413/udp
    restart: unless-stopped

  freshrss:
    image: linuxserver/freshrss
    container_name: freshrss
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - /home/newpiuser/.freshrss:/config
    ports:
      - 8081:80
    restart: unless-stopped

  sabnzbd:
    image: linuxserver/sabnzbd
    container_name: sabnzbd
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - /home/newpiuser/.sabnzbd:/config
      - /home/newpiuser/Downloads:/downloads
      # - /home/newpiuser/Downloads:/incomplete-downloads #optional
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
      - 9090:9090
    restart: unless-stopped

  nzbget:
    image: linuxserver/nzbget
    container_name: nzbget
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - /home/newpiuser/.nzbget:/config
      - /home/newpiuser/Downloads:/downloads
    ports:
      - 6789:6789
    restart: unless-stopped

ownership in my home folder

drwxr-xr-x  27 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Jun  7 20:01 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root    4096 May 29 00:14 ..
-rw-------   1 newpiuser newpiuser 35211 Jun  7 19:55 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--   1 newpiuser newpiuser   220 May 25 20:51 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--   1 newpiuser newpiuser  3523 May 25 20:51 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x   8 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:43 .cache
drwx------  10 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Jun  7 19:40 .config
drwxr-x---   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 30 18:42 configs
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:41 Desktop
-rw-r--r--+  1 newpiuser newpiuser  1967 Jun  7 18:50 docker-compose.yml
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:41 Documents
drwxr-xr-x   9 pi     pi      4096 May 24 01:44 Downloads
-rw-r--r--+  1 newpiuser newpiuser  6148 Jun  7 20:01 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   8 pi     pi      4096 May 14 00:04 .freshrss
drwx------   3 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 25 20:55 .gnupg
-rw-r--r--+  1 newpiuser newpiuser    88 Apr 12 13:36 .inputrc
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Feb 13 17:03 MagPi
drwx------   4 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:43 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Feb 13 17:16 Music
drwxr-xr-x   2 pi     pi      4096 May 24 01:19 .nzbget
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:41 Pictures
drwx------   3 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:43 .pki
drwxr-xr-x   4 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Jun  1 18:39 .plex
drwx------   3 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 31 07:58 .pp_backup
-rw-r--r--   1 newpiuser newpiuser   807 May 25 20:51 .profile
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:41 Public
drwxr-xr-x   6 pi     pi      4096 May 18 22:07 .sabnzbd
drwx------   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 26 13:46 .ssh
drwxrwxr-x+ 12 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Jun  1 18:17 Storage
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:41 Templates
drwxr-xr-x   5 pi     pi      4096 Jun  7 19:56 .transmission
drwxr-xr-x   2 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 02:41 Videos
drwx------   3 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 May 29 11:03 .vnc
drwxr-xr-x   3 newpiuser newpiuser  4096 Jun  7 19:40 .vscode-oss
-rw-r--r--   1 newpiuser newpiuser   209 May 30 18:41 .wget-hsts
-rw-------   1 newpiuser newpiuser    49 Jun  7 19:56 .Xauthority
-rw-------   1 newpiuser newpiuser  2537 Jun  7 19:56 .xsession-errors
-rw-------   1 newpiuser newpiuser  2537 Jun  7 19:37 .xsession-errors.old

docker ps

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                      COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                                        NAMES
7c0d24ca600a        linuxserver/sabnzbd        "/init"             44 minutes ago      Up 16 minutes       0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9090->9090/tcp                               sabnzbd
11fe205ecb90        linuxserver/nzbget         "/init"             44 minutes ago      Up 16 minutes       0.0.0.0:6789->6789/tcp                                                       nzbget
4978cbebae61        linuxserver/transmission   "/init"             44 minutes ago      Up 16 minutes       0.0.0.0:9091->9091/tcp, 0.0.0.0:51413->51413/tcp, 0.0.0.0:51413->51413/udp   transmission
f203c6f5c6fa        linuxserver/freshrss       "/init"             44 minutes ago      Up 16 minutes       443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8081->80/tcp                                                freshrss
d23b89343bb5        linuxserver/plex           "/init"             44 minutes ago      Up 16 minutes                                                                                    plex

For what your try to solve, the output of ls -l (or it’s alias ll) is worth nothing without the -n option. If owners user and group id are not 1000, you either need to chown the folder OR use the correct UID/GID in your docker-compose environment variables.

Awesome, thank you @meyay! It should’ve been 1001! This literally fixed it all :smiley: