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'azldev image build' needs to run as non-root user

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Since Sep 1, 2026.

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bug enhancement

Building as the root user isn't a safe operation, for example after some image builds there are root-owned files polluting the azurelinux git checkout, which can't be removed with git clean -fdx because they are root-owned, and when i ran sudo git clean -fdx it removed most of my /dev/* files (including /dev/null), rendering my dev system unusable (luckily a reboot recovered to a usable state).

Instructions for building with kiwi as non-root are here: https://osinside.github.io/kiwi/plugins/self_contained.html

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