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Is there a way to have Prefect flows run as a user other than `root`?

<@U03FKQX1TH9> on ECS.  I thought I specified a different user in the Dockerfile, but it seems to still run as `root`?

That’s part of it - <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/task_definition_parameters.html#container_definitions>

You’d need to do it both in the dockerfile with a useradd, and in the ECS task definition