What is the right way to set up write permissions in for this image?

[guronanak]

I am able to get containers up and running, but the directories are read only all the time.

Home can I mount a user directory in the container and get things running?

The only way I've been able to succeed so far is by going into the user directory on the host and give the other user recursive write permissions, ie chmod -R o+w dir where dir is the user's directory mounted in the container.

Can't the write permissions of the person who created and is running the container be automatically passed on if the directory is their own directory?

[guronanak]

I found out about the --user option - https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#user

The basic instructions in the docs should include it though as well as the need to prepend 127.0.0.1: to the ports.