# Control over user:group ownership of files in docker volume?

**URL:** https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/control-over-user-group-ownership-of-files-in-docker-volume/2499
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**Created:** [November 25, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/control-over-user-group-ownership-of-files-in-docker-volume/2499 "2022-11-25T08:18:58Z")
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### Author: ![AnoikisNomads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@AnoikisNomads](https://kanboard.discourse.group/u/AnoikisNomads)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://kanboard.discourse.group/t/control-over-user-group-ownership-of-files-in-docker-volume/2499/1 "2022-11-25T08:18:58Z")

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Hi,

I have an odd situation. Kanboard is installed as docker container via docker-compose.yaml - host system is Debian. The application works fine, is connecting to my MariaDB database container and uses LDAP for auth.

Part of my docker compose file:

```auto
version: '2'
services:
  kanboard:
    image: kanboard/kanboard:v1.2.25
    container_name: kanboard
    hostname: kanboard
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - kanboard:/var/www/app/data
      - kanboard_plugins:/var/www/app/plugins
      - kanboard_sslcerts:/etc/nginx/ssl
    labels:
      - ...
    environment:
      - PUID=1002
      - PGID=100
      - ...
    restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
  kanboard:
    external: true
  kanboard_plugins:
    external: true
  kanboard_sslcerts:
    external: true

```

What’s puzzling me is that on the container host side of things all files / folders in the volumes belong to user:group `_app`:`systemd-journal`. Looking from inside the container shell, user:group are `nginx`:`nginx` as expected.

The PUID / PGID environment variables in the docker compose file would result in the desired host system user:group combination but it isn’t applied. I’ve also tried UID / GID instead of PUID / PGID but the container doesn’t seem to recognize it.

Any idea what I’m mising? Thanks in advance.