Docker permission issues

[mrm]

What version of docker-compose and docker are you running?

I suspect you’ve got an older docker-compose that isn’t handling the user directive properly.

If you docker exec -it sh into your running docker container, you can ps -ef and verify that the process is running with the correct uid.

This post might help too:

Docker-compose - cannot create container

Try running in the foreground with debugging. Add this command: line: version: "3.7" services: photostructure: image: photostructure/server command: node /ps/app/photostructure main --verbose ... And then run docker-compose up (without the --detach). I found that my config dir actually had some files owned by root, as I’d been testing with and without the user: 1000:1000 assertion, so I had to sudo chown -R 1000:1000 ~/.config/PhotoStructure-docker/