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Writing to a root-owned path in Docker

DockerUsers & SecurityUSERintermediate

What this snippet does

Files copied before USER stay owned by root, so the unprivileged user cannot write there.

Expected output

mkdir: can't create directory '/app/cache': Permission denied

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