How to set 2 iCloudPD containers with different Telegram prefixes? [unRAID]

[faraguti]

Hi all,

I’m running 2 iCloudPD Docker containers in unRAID and want each to respond to different Telegram commands (like separate prefixes). I read the docs and saw user triggers Telegram sync, but there’s no telegram_prefix option.

Right now both of them are using the "nobody" user and I would like to change that.

2026-02-27 13:14:04 INFO Monitoring Telegram for remote commands prefix: nobody

Has anyone set up multiple containers with Telegram so each listens to its own prefix? Any short/simple solution?

Thanks!

[boredazfcuk]

Just set the "user" variable to be different for each account in the icloudpd.conf file. I control six different accounts via a single Telegram chat group e.g. boredazfcuk auth, wifey auth, iPad auth, kidA auth etc...

[faraguti]

does that user in the .conf file needs to exist in the docker container?

[boredazfcuk]

The container creates the user specified in icloudpd.conf when it launches (it writes a minimal /etc/passwd) and then sets permissions for that account on the download directory (plus others).

Personally, I match the users/ids inside the containers to the users/ids on the host so that people logging into the host don't get permission problems.

So
user=boredazfcuk
user_id=1000
group=boredazfcuk
group_id=1000
download_path=/home/boredazfcuk/iCloud

As all match the host, people logging onto the server just see their photos in their home directory's iCloud directory and can access them without issue.

If you are wanting to set the nobody account so that permissions are super restrictive, you just need to set the user_id and group_id to the nobody id of the host... usually 65534.

The user and group names inside the container are basically irrelevant. It's only the ids that are important as the host system will see those ids stamped on the files.

[faraguti]

thanks!