diff --git a/changelog.d/6389.bugfix b/changelog.d/6389.bugfix new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c553622b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/6389.bugfix @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fix permission denied error when trying to generate a config file with the docker image. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docker/start.py b/docker/start.py index 6e1cb807a..97fd247f8 100755 --- a/docker/start.py +++ b/docker/start.py @@ -169,11 +169,11 @@ def run_generate_config(environ, ownership): # log("running %s" % (args, )) if ownership is not None: - args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args - os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args) - # make sure that synapse has perms to write to the data dir. subprocess.check_output(["chown", ownership, data_dir]) + + args = ["su-exec", ownership] + args + os.execv("/sbin/su-exec", args) else: os.execv("/usr/local/bin/python", args)