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Immich
•
14mo ago
•
16 replies
zuckerpapi.eth
starting as non root user
hello i want to start immich as a non
-root user
this is my docker compose
:
services
:
immich
-server
:
container
_name
: immich
_server
image
: ghcr
.io
/immich
-app
/immich
-
s
e
r
v
e
r
:
$
{
I
M
M
I
C
H
_
V
E
R
S
I
O
N
:
-release
}
hostname
: immich
-server
user
:
"
1
0
0
0
:1000
"
security
_opt
:
- no
-new
-
p
r
i
v
i
l
e
g
e
s
:true
volumes
:
-
{
{immich
_upload
}
}
:
/usr
/src
/app
/upload
-
/etc
/
l
o
c
a
l
t
i
m
e
:
/etc
/
l
o
c
a
l
t
i
m
e
:ro
env
_file
:
-
.env
depends
_on
:
- redis
- database
restart
: always
root
@lxc
-
d
o
c
k
e
r
:
/docker
/data
/media
# ps aux
| grep immich
-server
root 689257 0
.0 0
.0 3472 1792 pts
/1 S
+
1
9
:19
0
:00 grep
-
-color
=auto immich
-server
Seems like the user
:
1
0
0
0
:1000 is not really doing what its supposed to do
This is the error in my logs
microservices worker error
: Error
: Failed to read
"
<UPLOAD
_LOCATION
>
/library
/
.immich
- Please see
https://immich.app/docs/administration/system-integrity#folder-checks
for more information
.
"
My upload location is a sambafolder
, on which i can write without any issues with touch test
.txt directly in the shell
(root
@lxc
-docker
)
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