non-root user for Docker container

[Divelix]

It is generally considered bad practice to do anything from root, so I wonder what is the point of that in isaac-lab container? For me as a sim user it spoils UX by messing up files ownership, e.g. I can't git stash anything from host because files are owned by root.

Btw, adding non-root user to container is not hard, there is how I do it in my Dockerfiles:

# Setup non-root user
ARG USERNAME=user
ARG USER_UID=1000
ARG USER_GID=$USER_UID

RUN groupadd --gid $USER_GID $USERNAME \
    && useradd --uid $USER_UID --gid $USER_GID -m $USERNAME \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y sudo \
    && echo $USERNAME ALL=\(root\) NOPASSWD:ALL > /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME \
    && chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/$USERNAME

# Do root stuff here (like apt update and so on)
...

# Switch to non-root user
USER $USERNAME

[Divelix]

Since IsaacLab now can be installed via pip, this topic becomes irrelevant for me.