diff --git a/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh b/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
index e938ebaa8..0deeefec8 100755
--- a/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
+++ b/.devcontainer/postCreateCommand.sh
@@ -11,4 +11,5 @@ fi
 
 pip install -e .
 python ./gandlf_verifyInstall
+sudo chmod -R 755 tutorials/classification_medmnist_notebook/medmnist/dataset # dummy commit
 gzip -dk -r tutorials/classification_medmnist_notebook/medmnist/dataset