Container writes bind-mount files as wrong user
Files written by a containerized sync service to a bind-mounted folder end up owned by a mapped user ID, not the host user.
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3 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
What's going wrong
Users running a sync service in a container want it to read and write a host folder as their normal user, but the files appear on the host owned by a shifted, unrelated ID.
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