How to keep same file ownership on host and in the container? #824

alekseiismirnov · 2024-01-23T08:45:05Z

alekseiismirnov
Jan 23, 2024

Here is a part of my podman-compose.yml

  web:
    build: .
    args:
      USERNAME: ${USERNAME}
      GROUPNAME: ${GROUPNAME}
      USERID: ${USERID}
      GROUPID: ${GROUPID}
    depends_on:
      - db
    userns: keep-id

    ports:
     - "3000:3000"
    volumes:
     - .:/app:z

This is the call to the podman composer:

podman-compose up --build-arg USERNAME=$(id -un) --build-arg GROUPNAME=$(id -gn) --build-arg USERID=$(id -u) --build-arg GROUPID=$(id -g)

The web volume is intended to be write-accessible from both the container and the host.

However, in this configuration, the /app folder and its files are owned by root. If I add the 'U' flag (- .:/app:z,U), the folder becomes write-accessible to the container but is locally owned by a user with UID 100999 and GID 100999.

When running a container from the resulting image:

podman run -it -v .:/home/lesha:z --userns=keep-id --entrypoint /bin/sh quotes_web:latest

Ownership is correct inside the container and does not change on the host, working as expected. Any suggestions on how to fix this for podman-compose?

This is the Dockerfile:

FROM docker.io/library/ruby:3.0.0-alpine

ARG USERNAME
ARG GROUPNAME
ARG USERID
ARG GROUPID

COPY run_rails.sh /usr/local/bin
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/run_rails.sh

WORKDIR /app

ENV APPPATH='/app'

RUN echo '***' && \
    addgroup -g $GROUPID $GROUPNAME && \
    adduser -S -u $USERID -G $GROUPNAME  -h /home/$USERNAME -s /bin/sh $USERNAME && \
    mkdir -p /home/$USERNAME && \
    chmod 700 /home/$USERNAME && \
    mkdir -p $APPPATH && \
    echo "export PATH=$PATH:/home/$USERNAME/.local/share/gem/ruby/3.0.0/bin" >> /home/$USERNAME/.profile && \
    echo 'gem: --user-install --env-shebang --no-rdoc --no-ri' >> /home/$USERNAME/.gemrc && \
    echo "Change ownership chown -R $USERNAME:$GROUPNAME $APPPATH" && \
    chown -R $USERNAME:$GROUPNAME $APPPATH && \
    chown -R $USERNAME:$GROUPNAME /home/$USERNAME

USER $USERNAME
ENTRYPOINT ["run_rails.sh"]

EXPOSE 3000

Thank you!

alekseiismirnov · 2024-01-26T19:22:55Z

alekseiismirnov
Jan 26, 2024
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My fault. Not userns: keep-id, but userns_mode: keep-id. Works for me now.

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