How to disable user data directory permission changes

[jbking93-git]

Hey felddy.

First off, thanks for a great container, I moved to this after official release and it's been rock solid.

I've noticed the start up script sets permissions on the user data folder at every start.

I have my whole Tabletop resources folder mapped to /Data/resources for easy access to my maps and tokens I own. my Foundry Docker and UnRaid seem to be in a battle for permissions of this folder, as sometimes when I restart my Foundry Docker it takes some time for it to check the permissions and reassign them as it's quite a large folder. This also causes some issues when browsing the folders as a user and I have to manually override them to get access to my folders as a user again.

Am I just doing it wrong? Can I disable setting the user data permissions?

[felddy]

Hey @jbking93-git,

I'm glad you've found the container useful!

You can prevent the container from modifying the permissions of the /data volume using the CONTAINER_PRESERVE_OWNER environment variable. Here is the relevant section from the README.md:

Name

Purpose

CONTAINER_PRESERVE_OWNER

Normally the ownership of the /data directory and its contents are changed to match that of the server at startup. Setting this to a regular expression will exclude any matching paths and preserve their ownership. Note: This is a match on the whole path, not a search. This is useful if you want mount a volume as read-only inside /data (e.g.; a volume that contains assets mounted at /data/Data/assets).

For your use case set CONTAINER_PRESERVE_OWNER to /data/Data/resources

I think this will solve the permission fighting issue for you. Let me know how it goes.

[boideltier]

Hi! I had a smiliar, if not same problem:

I access the /Data directory outside of the container via SMB share. As per instructions, I linked the directories via the compose file:

volumes:
    - /.../foundryuserdata/:/data

Before starting up the container, I made sure that the user who accesses the SMB share has write permissions in the foundryuserdata directory. I tried to use CONTAINER_PRESERVE_OWNER like this:

environment:
    - CONTAINER_PRESERVE_CONFIG=/data/Data

Still after loading up the container, it changed the permissions on my foundryuserdata directory to read only for the user accessing via SMB. Did I do something wrong?

[felddy]

@The-Kangaroo You're using the wrong environment variable.
You want CONTAINER_PRESERVE_OWNER, not CONTAINER_PRESERVE_CONFIG.

[boideltier]

Ooooh... It's been a long day. Sorry for that.

Well, it does raise another problem when trying to start my world now.
Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/data/Data/worlds/worldname/data/actors.db'

I think I'll just try and get by without the share. ^^