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Set default $USER as root

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, rust
Domain
devops

Research direction

Reproduce the reported docker run command for the rust:1.45.0-buster image without -e USER, then inspect its Dockerfile definition. Done means the same cargo new app command succeeds without explicitly setting USER=root.

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Description

$ docker run -it --rm rust:1.45.0-buster cargo new app
error: Failed to create package `app` at `/app`

Caused by:
  could not determine the current user, please set $USER

To solve this

$ docker run -it --rm -e USER=root rust:1.45.0-buster cargo new app

It's very annoying to have to do this.
Docker user is of course root in normal use, so I want you to set it as the default value.

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