simonsobs / simonsobs/ocs

Improve handling of UID/GID in crossbar container

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Since Oct 29, 2020.

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Description

As noted in #184 (discussion here), in the crossbar server container we should handle the permissions a bit better than we currently do.

In the case of the crossbar server, this runs as the "crossbar" user (with uid/gid 242) within the container, but that user likely doesn't exist outside of the container. There is a way to remap the namespace within docker. Here are a couple articles on that:

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