Allow user to run a image with a specific user at a certain step.

[XhstormR]

I use Drone CI Service to start gradle image to build software. But gradle image run as gradle user insted of root user by default. However, only the root user has write access in the /drone/src directory. I spent an afternoon trying to solve this problem, finally I switched to openjdk:latest image.

Is there a way to run as specific user with a image in some step, like this:

steps:
- name: build
  user: root #specific user
  image: gradle:latest
  commands:
- ./gradle assemble

This link has more information if you need it.

[tboerger]

Because of the permission issues on the shared volume it is so far not supported to switch the user for steps.

[bradrydzewski]

I think in this case we do need to give an option to override the default USER (non-root) and instruct it to run as root.

[bradrydzewski]

available in :latest via c338fad