Docker volume option create folder as "root" user

Question

I am logged in in my PC (Fedora 24) as

rperez

. I have setup Docker for being able to run through this user, so I am running a container as follow:

$ docker run -d \

             -it \

             -e HOST_IP=192.168.1.66 \

             -e PHP_ERROR_REPORTING='E_ALL & ~E_STRICT' \

             -p 80:80 \

             -v ~/var/www:/var/www \

             --name php55-dev reypm/php55-dev

Notice the

$

sign meaning I am running the command as a non root user (which uses

#

). The command above creates the following directory:

/home/rperez/var/www

but owner is set to

root

I believe this is because

docker

run as

root

user behind scenes.

Having this setup I am not able to create a file under

~/var/www

as

rperez

because the owner is

root

so ...

What is the right way to deal with this? I have read this and this but is not so helpful.

Any help?

Answer 1

As discussioned here, this is an expected behavior of docker. You can create the target volume directory before running docker command:

chown $(whoami) /path/to/your/dir

Docker volume option create folder as "root" user

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