wip explicit minio hook

Incorrect file permissions in the frontend Docker image caused
problems when running the project, and were surfaced by @briquet
while setting it up with Podman.

Adjust the ownership and permissions applied during the build so
the image works cleanly under Docker and Podman alike.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ and this project adheres to
 - 🐛(backend) acknowledge unknown LiveKit webhook events instead of 422
 - 🔒️(backend) enforce display name setting on rename API
 - 🔒️(backend) reject inactive users in resource server backend
+- 🐛(frontend) fix file permissions in the Docker image
 
 ## [1.31.0] - 2026-09-08
 

Makefile

@@ -36,9 +36,14 @@ DB_PORT            = 5432
 
 # -- Docker
 # Get the current user ID to use for docker run and docker exec commands
+ifneq ($(findstring podman,$(DOCKER_HOST)),)
+DOCKER_UID          = 0
+DOCKER_GID          = 0
+else
 DOCKER_UID          = $(shell id -u)
 DOCKER_GID          = $(shell id -g)
-DOCKER_USER         = $(DOCKER_UID):$(DOCKER_GID)
+endif
+DOCKER_USER        ?= $(DOCKER_UID):$(DOCKER_GID)
 COMPOSE                  = DOCKER_USER=$(DOCKER_USER) docker compose
 COMPOSE_EXEC             = $(COMPOSE) exec
 COMPOSE_EXEC_APP         = $(COMPOSE_EXEC) app-dev

bin/_config.sh

@@ -25,8 +25,11 @@ function _set_user() {
         return
     fi
 
-    # USER_ID = USER_ID or `id -u` if USER_ID is not set
+    # USER_ID = USER_ID or the engine-appropriate default if USER_ID is not set.
-    USER_ID=${USER_ID:-$(id -u)}
+    case "${DOCKER_HOST:-}" in
+        *podman*) USER_ID=${USER_ID:-0} ;;
+        *)        USER_ID=${USER_ID:-$(id -u)} ;;
+    esac
 
     echo "🙋(user) ID: ${USER_ID}"
 }

compose.yml

@@ -40,11 +40,7 @@ services:
       minio:
         condition: service_healthy
         restart: true
-    entrypoint: >
+    entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "mc alias set meet http://minio:9000 meet password && mc mb --ignore-existing meet/meet-media-storage"]
-      sh -c "
-      /usr/bin/mc alias set meet http://minio:9000 meet password && \
-      /usr/bin/mc mb meet/meet-media-storage && \
-      exit 0;"
 
   app-dev:
     build:

src/frontend/Dockerfile

@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ USER node
 
 WORKDIR /home/frontend/
 
-COPY ./src/frontend/package.json ./package.json
+COPY --chown=node:node ./src/frontend/package.json ./package.json
-COPY ./src/frontend/package-lock.json ./package-lock.json
+COPY --chown=node:node ./src/frontend/package-lock.json ./package-lock.json
 
 RUN npm ci
 
-COPY .dockerignore ./.dockerignore
+COPY --chown=node:node .dockerignore ./.dockerignore
 COPY --chown=node:node ./src/frontend/ .
 
 ### ---- Front-end builder image ----