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more expanded details can be seen here:

https://github.com/TheoLeCalvar/peertube-plugin-hardware-transcode-vaapi/issues/6#issuecomment-3246562059

Thank you, all!


hey all!

i need some guidance. can you help point me in the right direction?

there a docker image that is basically fine, except i just want to add a group to it so that group will exist in the container.

how do i do this? is there a way to do this that will just pull the original image as is, so it will update when the original image updates, and then just add the group i need?

thanks in advance!

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[–] nico198X@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

so, in this case, the internal user is peertube with UID 999.

would i then use that UID, and the GID of the passed render device?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Passing that in basically overrides the [USER field in the Dockerfile](docker run -it --user $UID:$GID). Make sure that user/group combo has access to the render device.

[–] nico198X@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

lol i can't believe this just worked. XD

falls over i've spent MONTHS on this. XD i am LITERALLY completely embarrassed now. XD

i just didn't think i had that level of control. i kept reading that even if the IDs match it's not REALLY the same as the host permissions, but this worked just fine. a much simpler solution.

well, thank you for that! still so much to learn.

No prob! Glad you got it to work, permissions can be a huge pain.