DiamondLightSource / DiamondLightSource/python-copier-template
rootful is broken
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Description
If you use the python copier template developer container and you have docker (or rootful podman) then it does not work as intended:
- GOOD: it loads and you can work on the project and run tests
- BAD: massively insecure as you are running as true root
- UGLY: project files get written by root and the git gets really angry
There used to be a workaround to this in devcontainer.json
```json
"remoteUser": "${localEnv:VSCODE_REMOTE_USER}"
```
docker users were then expected to set VSCODE_REMOTE_USER=$(id -u):$(id -g) in their bashrc.
podman users need do nothing as blank == default == root which is just right in a a rootless container.
Not ideal. But it was the best I could come up with.
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