Root password inside a Docker container

Question

I\'m using a Docker image which was built using the USER command to use a non-root user called dev. Inside a container, I\'m \"dev\", but I want to edit the

Answer 1

By default docker containers run as the root user.

If you are still using the container you can use exit command to get back to root (default user) user instead of running the container again.

Example -

[dev@6c4c86bccf93 ~]$ ls
[dev@6c4c86bccf93 ~]$ other-commands..
[dev@6c4c86bccf93 ~]$ exit
[root@6c4c86bccf93 /]# ls