Define services in Docker Compose — group_add
group_add specifies additional groups, by name or number, which the user inside the container must be a member of.
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group_add specifies additional groups, by name or number, which the user inside the container must be a member of.
An example of where this is useful is when multiple containers (running as different users) need to all read or write the same file on a shared volume. That file can be owned by a group shared by all the containers, and specified in group_add.
Running id inside the created container must show that the user belongs to the mail group, which would not have been the case if group_add were not declared.
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