[#no-puid-pgid]
= PUID and PGID support

The OliveTin container image does not use the PUID and PGID convention to specify which user the container should run as - this is a convention that was popularized by linuxserver.io, because their container images use supervisord. Instead, simply use the `--user` argument when defining the container, to change the user OliveTin runs as.

* link:https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/understanding-puid-and-pgid[LSIO documentation for PUID and PGID, that says that `--user` is the same thing]

An example is shown below;

[source,shell]
.Using --user
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user@host: docker create --name olivetin -p 1337:1337 -v /etc/OliveTin/:/config:ro docker.io/jamesread/olivetin --user container:container
user@host: docker start olivetin
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