remove non-root user creation and switch to root for default command execution (this version past the test using notebooks/MausHaus_demo.ipynb)

Author: xiu-cs

Dockerfile

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Base image with PyTorch and CUDA support
 FROM pytorch/pytorch:2.3.1-cuda11.8-cudnn8-runtime
 
-# User arguments for container setup
+# User arguments for container setup - keeping for compatibility with Makefile
 ARG user_name
 ARG uid
 ARG gid
@@ -15,18 +15,6 @@ RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* \
     && apt-get clean
 
-# Create a non-root user
-RUN mkdir -p /app /home/${user_name}
-RUN groupadd -g ${gid} ${user_name} \
-    && useradd -m -u ${uid} -g ${gid} ${user_name} \
-    && chown -R ${uid}:${gid} /home/${user_name}
-
-# Switch to the new user and set home directory as working directory
-USER ${user_name}
-ENV HOME=/home/${user_name}
-WORKDIR ${HOME}
-
-# Create a user conda environment to avoid permission issues
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-c"]
 RUN conda create -y --name amadeusGPT python=3.10
 ENV PATH=/opt/conda/envs/amadeusGPT/bin:$PATH
@@ -36,9 +24,11 @@ RUN conda install -y -n amadeusGPT hdf5 pytables=3.8.0
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir notebook amadeusgpt
 RUN pip install -U --pre deeplabcut
 
-# Initialize conda for the user's bash
+# Initialize conda for bash
 RUN conda init bash
-RUN echo 'conda activate amadeusGPT' >> ${HOME}/.bashrc
+RUN echo 'conda activate amadeusGPT' >> ~/.bashrc
 
+USER root
 # Default command when container starts (activating the conda env)
+WORKDIR /app
 CMD ["bash", "-l"]