odoo user doesn't have permission to read/write on /var/lib/odoo volumes

[AndersonJim]

Impacted images:

• 12.0
• 13.0
• 14.0

Running an odoo:13 container I tried to set a volume for /var/lib/odoo, the container runned well, and everything looked nice until I tried to access odoo but server didn't response.

command: docker run -p 8069:8069 --link db_10:db --rm -t -v $PWD/odoo:/etc/odoo -v $PWD/addons:/mnt/extra-addons -v $PWD/filestore:/var/lib/odoo odoo:13.0

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Then I realized that odoo could write/read in the -v folder I tested change /var/lib/odoo ownership and it worked.

shouldn't this be add into the Dockerfile in order to avoid this type of situation?

Like this:

# Set permissions and Mount /var/lib/odoo to allow restoring filestore and /mnt/extra-addons for users addons
RUN chown odoo /etc/odoo/odoo.conf \
    && mkdir -p /mnt/extra-addons \
    && chown -R odoo /mnt/extra-addons \
    && chown -R odoo /var/lib/odoo

VOLUME ["/var/lib/odoo", "/mnt/extra-addons"]

[d-fence]

Hi, I'm sorry to say that it won't change anything. In the end, the mounted directory will have the ownership of your host user. For example, if your $PWD/filestore directory is owned by a user id 1000 that have write permission in it, you will end up with the same permission and ownership in the Docker container ... where the odoo user id is 101. So odoo user won't have write permission in it.

[AndersonJim]

@d-fence Oh yeah, That's true Thanks for your feedback.

I'll be closing this issue.