Docker ~/.config directory is empty

[khanakia]

I am using the docker image for the code server https://coder.com/docs/code-server/latest/install#docker

HOST Machine: ~/.config is empty

When i ssh into the docker container /home/coder/.config is also empty

Actually, it using the /root/.config/code-server/config.yaml this directory for config file within the Docker Container

So how to fix this ?

Note if I used this modified command it works

docker run -it --name code-server -p 8003:8080 \
  -v "/root/.config:/root/.config" \
  -v "$PWD:/home/coder/project" \
  -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
  -e "DOCKER_USER=$USER" \
  codercom/code-server:latest

[jsjoeio]

I'm not super familiar with how the .config should work in a Docker environment.

cc @code-asher maybe?

[code-asher]

I am able to reproduce if I run the Docker command as root. In our entry script we attempt to rename the coder user to the passed-in DOCKER_USER but if this is root then I imagine this will fail since root already exists? So maybe what we need to do is if the user is root we skip the rename and instead change root's home directory to /home/coder.

Or we add a note to the docs to bind to /root/.config instead when running as root.

[code-asher]

The ideal solution would probably be to keep using the coder user in the container instead of root but I am not sure how to do that.

[khanakia]

the docker container runs as root actually so it will use the /root/.config file within the docker container, not the /home/coder/.config, and also if we run the container as coder user some files we will not be able to edit as the host will still have files with root permission.