adduser

[adaniline-traderev]

adduser is not part of the image...
If I don't want to run my app as root, what is the way to add an app user to my image?

[iliana]

Would something like this work?

FROM amazonlinux:2
RUN yum install -y shadow-utils && yum clean all && useradd user
USER user

[yosifkit]

For docker, the user id doesn't have to exist to use it 😉:

FROM amazonlinux:2
USER 1000

[adaniline-traderev]

Thank you, good to know!
I did not realize it is possible - I always was adding users to the image..

[Veetaha]

For those desperate souls that can't find useradd in this image. Here is my blessing. It is there, you already have it in possession. No need to thank, I already spent time figuring this out, just use useradd though an absolute path, because it is not in PATH by default in Amazon Linux 2.

/usr/sbin/useradd $YOUR_USER