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> he found it problematic that inside the Docker container, everything runs as root by default

That's technically right, but not what you'd expect. Docker runs root in a few restricted namespaces and behind seccomp by default. The syscall exploits people are worried about are often simply not available. Even then it's easy to take it another step and create new users. You could even have root mapped to a different user on the outside if you prefer that.

That shouldn't be an issue if you're coming from FreeBSD - https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/new-users/adding-a-u...

> If you did not create any users when you installed the system and are thus logged in as root, you should probably create a user now with ...




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