Anil spotted that there is a Zulip client available to run in a terminal window zulip/zulip-terminal.
I dived into the instructions and built the Dockerfile.
git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:zulip/zulip-terminal.git
cd zulip-terminal/docker
docker build -t zulip-terminal:latest -f Dockerfile.alpine .
However, I ran into a permission problem when running the container:
$ mkdir ~/.zulip
$ docker run -it -v ~/.zulip:/.zulip zulip-terminal:latest
zuliprc file was not found at /.zulip/zuliprc
Please enter your credentials to login into your Zulip organization.
NOTE: The Zulip URL is where you would go in a web browser to log in to Zulip.
It often looks like one of the following:
your-org.zulipchat.com (Zulip cloud)
zulip.your-org.com (self-hosted servers)
chat.zulip.org (the Zulip community server)
Zulip URL: ****.zulipchat.com
Email: ****
Password:
PermissionError: zuliprc could not be created at /.zulip/zuliprc
I set the permissions with chmod 777 ~/.zulip and was up and running. ls -n ~/.zulip showed that the uid and gid were 100:101.
-rw------- 1 100 101 95 Aug 11 12:09 zuliprc
Looking at the Dockerfile, it has RUN useradd --user-group --create-home zulip which gets the next available uid/gid. I am 1000:1000 on my local machine. I’ve make a slight change to the Dockerfile.
$ git diff
diff --git i/docker/Dockerfile.buster w/docker/Dockerfile.buster
index f7a9dc2..315c010 100644
--- i/docker/Dockerfile.buster
+++ w/docker/Dockerfile.buster
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
FROM python:3.7-buster AS builder
-RUN useradd --user-group --create-home zulip
+RUN if getent passwd 1000; then userdel -r $(id -nu 1000); fi
+RUN if getent group 1000; then groupdel -r $(id -nu 1000); fi
+RUN useradd --uid 1000 --user-group --create-home zulip
USER zulip
WORKDIR /home/zulip
@@ -19,7 +21,9 @@ RUN set -ex; python3 -m venv zt_venv \
FROM python:3.7-slim-buster
-RUN useradd --user-group --create-home zulip
+RUN if getent passwd 1000; then userdel -r $(id -nu 1000); fi
+RUN if getent group 1000; then groupdel -r $(id -nu 1000); fi
+RUN useradd --uid 1000 --user-group --create-home zulip
COPY --from=builder --chown=zulip:zulip /home/zulip /home/zulip
USER zulip
WORKDIR /home/zulip
Now it doesn’t give me a permission error, and I own the file!
docker build -t zulip-terminal:latest -f Dockerfile.buster .
sudo rm -r ~/.zulip/
mkdir ~/.zulip
docker run -it -v ~/.zulip:/.zulip zulip-terminal:latest