[FIXED] Laravel Artisan commands creates new files as root instead of 1000

Issue

I currently have a nice docker setup for my laravel project

When I need to execute a php artisan command, I attache the php-fpm container to my terminal. It all works fine. except when the artisan command creates new files.

The files are created as root. To solve that i need to "chown -R 1000:1000 /application"

It's very annoying to do that everytime and was wandering if there's a way in Ubuntu or in my docker setup so that artisan creates the files as 1000 by himself and I don't need to worry about that anymore.

Solution

What you need to do is create a user and tell Docker to use that user for all subsequent actions, e.g.

# Dockerfile
...

WORKDIR /var/www

...

# create a new linux user group called 'developer' with an arbitrary group id of '1001'
RUN groupadd -g 1001 developer

# create a new user called developer and add it to this group
RUN useradd -u 1001 -g developer developer

# change the owner and group of the current working directory to developer
COPY --chown=developer:developer . /var/www

# run all subsequent processes as this user
USER developer

...

EXPOSE 9000

CMD ["php-fpm"]

Creating a group isn't strictly necessary but can be useful if you need to assign multiple services or users the same privileges across a single cluster or server.

If you don't assign a non-root user to your Docker containers for something like local development then it's not the end of the world but you'll encounter the problems you are having. However, in production it can be a serious security concern because it can enable a attacker to gain root privileges to the rest of your system.

Dockerfile reference: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#user

Answered By - Dan