[Bug]: Cannot deploy with non root coolify user. tee: /data/coolify/applications/___/.env: Permission denied

[MarArMar]

Error Message and Logs

Any test deployment fails at an early stage :

2025-Feb-21 15:24:46.559501
[CMD]: sudo echo '=' | base64 -d | tee /data/coolify/applications/o00os0wosgw8k4sw0w0s4w80/.env > /dev/null
2025-Feb-21 15:24:46.559501
tee: /data/coolify/applications/o00os0wosgw8k4sw0w0s4w80/.env: Permission denied
2025-Feb-21 15:24:47.132589
Oops something is not okay, are you okay? 😢
2025-Feb-21 15:24:47.135836
tee: /data/coolify/applications/o00os0wosgw8k4sw0w0s4w80/.env: Permission denied
2025-Feb-21 15:24:47.138888
Deployment failed. Removing the new version of your application.

Looks similar to #3625

Coolify UI seems to work well

What I tried

coolify_user="coolify"
sudo mkdir -p /data/coolify/{source,ssh,applications,databases,backups,services,proxy,webhooks-during-maintenance}
sudo mkdir -p /data/coolify/ssh/{keys,mux}
sudo mkdir -p /data/coolify/proxy/dynamic
sudo chown -R 9999:$coolify_user /data/coolify
sudo chmod -R 750 /data/coolify
sudo chmod -R 700 /data/coolify/ssh
sudo ls -la /data/coolify

Even this does not work

sudo chmod -R 777 /data/coolify

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a coolify server
2. Log Coolify in SSH with a non root user
3. Test any deployment

Example Repository URL

No response

Coolify Version

v4.0.0-beta.394

Are you using Coolify Cloud?

No (self-hosted)

Operating System and Version (self-hosted)

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Additional Information

Strangerly, running the failing command as the coolify user manually works with no permission error whatsoever

sudo echo "sqsqsd" | base64 -d | tee /data/coolify/applications/o00os0wosgw8k4sw0w0s4w80/.env

[MarArMar]

Other related topics issues on coolify user non root that lead me to the tests I did :

#4255

#2410

[MarArMar]

Changing coolify to use a root user fixed the problem

But ideally I would like to use a non-root user if possible

[ugolbck]

Got this issue as well today out of nowhere

2025-Jul-04 06:53:57.789350
Starting deployment of ugolbck/gradientembed:main-vo4gggwk4o48kkkwg08k8g84 to main_serv.
2025-Jul-04 06:53:57.946057
Preparing container with helper image: ghcr.io/coollabsio/coolify-helper:1.0.8.
2025-Jul-04 06:54:00.197637
----------------------------------------
2025-Jul-04 06:54:00.201198
Importing ugolbck/gradientembed:main (commit sha HEAD) to /artifacts/ic488w8800scco8ocsggkgss.
2025-Jul-04 06:54:04.980677
[CMD]: sudo echo 'U09VUkNFX0NPTU1JVD0yY2FiZGJmYmRiOTQ4ODdiZDJhYWNkNDdkZDczNDI0NTM5NWIyMmYxCkNPT0xJRllfVVJMPQpDT09MSUZZX0ZRRE49CkFMTE9XRURfSE9TVFM9aW5zdGFudGdyYWRpZWfzefzefbSx3d3cuaW5zdGFudGdyYWRpZW50LmNvbQpDU1JGX1RSVVNURURfT1JJR0lOUz1odHRwczovL2luc3RhbnRncmFkaWVudCfzefzef0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zdGFudGdyYWRpZW50LmNvbQpTRUNSRVRfS0VZPWJpMTl5bzVxMDNta2thNXYqdl9tLUAhbHJlaCYwY3JwdSV4YSooYWdlciQ0ciEpbnJ0CkhPU1Q9MC4wLjAuMA==' | base64 -d | tee /data/coolify/applications/vo4gggwk4o48kkkwg08k8g84/.env > /dev/null
2025-Jul-04 06:54:04.980677
tee: /data/coolify/applications/vo4gggwk4o48kkkwg08k8g84/.env: Permission denied
2025-Jul-04 06:54:05.011911
Oops something is not okay, are you okay? 😢
2025-Jul-04 06:54:05.014155
tee: /data/coolify/applications/vo4gggwk4o48kkkwg08k8g84/.env: Permission denied
2025-Jul-04 06:54:05.021107
Gracefully shutting down build container: ic488w8800scco8ocsggkgss

I tried increasing the permissions on the files but I still get the same error on all my app deployments, here are the permissions:

root@vps-84138021:/data/coolify/applications/vo4gggwk4o48kkkwg08k8g84# ll /data/coolify/applications/vo4gggwk4o48kkkwg08k8g84/
total 24
drwxr-x--- 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jul  3 19:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4   9999 root   4096 Jul  3 19:12 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu  295 Jul  3 22:00 .env*
-rwxr-x--- 1 ubuntu ubuntu  111 Jul  3 22:01 README.md*
-rwxr-x--- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 4455 Jul  3 22:01 docker-compose.yaml*

Restarting the app's docker compose did not help.

EDIT: running sudo chmod -R 775 /data/coolify seems to have solved it. Not optimal, might try to reboot the server or reinstall coolify, but it'll do for now.

[andrasbacsai]

Closing old issue (which is probably fixed already). Reopen if still reproducible.