Can maddy be run as root?

[shroff]

I want to run maddy in a rootless Podman container, under a dedicated user.

The easieast way to manager file/directory ownership and permissions is to run the binary as root inside the container, since it maps to the user running the container on the host.

Is there a way to specify which user maddy should run as?

[foxcpp]

maddy will run as whatever user you start it as. There is no uid/gid switching or privilege dropping anywhere.
Provided Docker image is set to run it as root already, though there is an issue that suggests changing it: #323 (https://github.com/hexops/dockerfile#run-as-a-non-root-user).

[shroff]

Thanks for the clarification! The installation guide mentions in several places that "maddy never runs as root", so I assumed there was some sort of uid switching going on, but I wasn't able to find anything in the code that does that.