Add a non-root "villas" user to the dev container for VS Code

pjungkamp · stv0g · commit 43965e3584de · 2022-04-20T11:29:36.000Z
This allow proper translation of file permissions on a Linux machine. See https://code.visualstudio.com/remote/advancedcontainers/add-nonroot-user
diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -2,13 +2,14 @@
 // https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/v0.195.0/containers/cpp
 {
 	"name": "VILLASnode",
-	"image": "registry.git.rwth-aachen.de/acs/public/villas/node/dev:master",
+	"image": "registry.git.rwth-aachen.de/acs/public/villas/node/dev-vscode:master",
 	// Uncomment to build the devcontainer locally
 	// "build": {
 	// 	"dockerfile": "../packaging/docker/Dockerfile.fedora",
-	// 	"target": "dev",
+	// 	"target": "dev-vscode",
 	// 	"context": ".."
 	// },
+	"remoteUser": "villas",
 	"runArgs": [ "--privileged", "--security-opt", "seccomp=unconfined"],
 
 	"extensions": [
diff --git a/packaging/docker/Dockerfile.fedora b/packaging/docker/Dockerfile.fedora
@@ -103,6 +103,18 @@ ENV LANG C.UTF-8
 
 WORKDIR /villas
 
+FROM dev AS dev-vscode
+
+# create a non-root user for vscode to use
+ARG USERNAME=villas
+ARG USER_UID=1000
+ARG USER_GID=$USER_UID
+
+RUN groupadd --gid $USER_GID $USERNAME \
+	&& useradd --uid $USER_UID --gid $USER_GID -m $USERNAME \
+	&& echo $USERNAME ALL=\(root\) NOPASSWD:ALL > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME \
+	&& chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME
+
 FROM dev AS app
 
 COPY . /villas/
