"make docker_makemigrations" not working.

[LuizDMM]

Describe the bug
I just created a project, created the .env and local.py files, ran when I run the command make docker_makemigrations it simply don't work. I'm getting a permission denied:

Migrations for 'users':
  users/migrations/0001_initial.py
    - Create model User
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/app/backend/manage.py", line 31, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 442, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 436, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 412, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 458, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 106, in wrapper
    res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py", line 259, in handle
    self.write_migration_files(changes)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemigrations.py", line 363, in write_migration_files
    with open(writer.path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/user/app/backend/users/migrations/0001_initial.py'
make: *** [Makefile:43: docker_makemigrations] Erro 1

To Reproduce

1. Run django-admin startproject theprojectname --extension py,yml,json --name Procfile,Dockerfile,docker-compose.yml,README.md,.env.example,.gitignore,Makefile,render.yaml --template=https://github.com/vintasoftware/django-react-boilerplate/archive/boilerplate-release.zip
2. Run cd theprojectname/backend/
3. Run cp theprojectname/settings/local.py.example theprojectname/settings/local.py
4. Run cp .env.example .env
5. Uncomment the Postgres line on .env
6. Run cd ..
7. Run make docker_setup
8. Run make docker_makemigrations

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Debian 12

[rangelfinal]

I followed the steps but could not reproduce the error: https://asciinema.org/a/nVbubarq02As0JdiO2Ghmya6u

Not sure what could be causing the permission error.
Do you use sudo docker or just docker?
Can you confirm your user has permissions over /home/user/app/?

[LuizDMM]

Hey Vitor, how are you doing? I generally use just docker. Are you asking about the user inside the container right?

Edit: It seems my user has all necessary permissions in /app/:

But when I try to create a file in /app/backend/users/migrations, I'm getting:

I really don't know why this is happening.

[LuizDMM]

Update: Somehow I fixed this running chmod 777 -R .. @rangelfinal Do you think is there any security risk in doing so?

[rangelfinal]

It seems that your backend/users/migrations directory was owned by root - not sure how that would happen, django-admin startproject should create the files using your current user
A better option than chmod 777 would be changing the owner with chown $USER:$USER -R .

[LuizDMM]

Maybe there's something with my virtual env. I use pyenv to manage my virtual envs. I will recreate the project changing the ownership of the files then. Thank you very much Vitor.

[danrleypereira]

Hello, and thank you for initiating this discussion. @rangelfinal @LuizDMM

I'm encountering a similar issue where Docker containers, by default, create files under the root user (uid=0) on Linux. To address this, I attempted to pass my user ID and group ID to Docker during the image and container build process. Specifically, I set the user ID and group ID in the docker-compose.yaml (user: 1000:1000), and also tried passing UID and GID directly to the docker-compose command.

Despite these efforts, I was unable to run makemigrations successfully without resorting to sudo. This is puzzling and quite time-consuming, and I'm still trying to resolve it. For now, my temporary workaround has been to use sudo for makemigrations or "chmod 777 -R backend/users/migrations", although I'm aware this isn't ideal.

I've spent a significant amount of time on this issue and need to pivot back to coding, but I plan to revisit this problem soon. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The two more consistent approaches that I found was 1 and 2

PS.: I am using Bookworm too (Debian 12).

[fjsj]

Thanks, I will re-open the issue for now.