Merge pull request #4697 from freqtrade/docker_user

Docker as user

freqtrade/configuration/directory_operations.py

@@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ def create_datadir(config: Dict[str, Any], datadir: Optional[str] = None) -> Pat
     return folder
 
 
+def chown_user_directory(directory: Path) -> None:
+    """
+    Use Sudo to change permissions of the home-directory if necessary
+    Only applies when running in docker!
+    """
+    import os
+    if os.environ.get('FT_APP_ENV') == 'docker':
+        try:
+            import subprocess
+            subprocess.check_output(
+                ['sudo', 'chown', '-R', 'ftuser:', str(directory.resolve())])
+        except Exception:
+            logger.warning(f"Could not chown {directory}")
+
+
 def create_userdata_dir(directory: str, create_dir: bool = False) -> Path:
     """
     Create userdata directory structure.
@@ -37,6 +52,7 @@ def create_userdata_dir(directory: str, create_dir: bool = False) -> Path:
     sub_dirs = ["backtest_results", "data", "hyperopts", "hyperopt_results", "logs",
                 "notebooks", "plot", "strategies", ]
     folder = Path(directory)
+    chown_user_directory(folder)
     if not folder.is_dir():
         if create_dir:
             folder.mkdir(parents=True)