Massive chown happening even with updateRemoteUserUID = false

[kyrofa]

• VSCode Version: 1.72.0
• Local OS Version: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic)
• Remote OS Version: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal)
• Remote Extension/Connection Type: SSH/Containers/WSL/Server docker-compose
• Logs:

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Step 8/10 : RUN eval $(sed -n "s/${REMOTE_USER}:[^:]*:\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):[^:]*:\([^:]*\).*/OLD_UID=\1;OLD_GID=\2;HOME_FOLDER=\3/p" /etc/passwd);       eval $(sed -n "s/\([^:]*\):[^:]*:${NEW_UID}:.*/EXISTING_USER=\1/p" /etc/passwd);       eval $(sed -n "s/\([^:]*\):[^:]*:${NEW_GID}:.*/EXISTING_GROUP=\1/p" /etc/group); if [ -z "$OLD_UID" ]; then              echo "Remote user not found in /etc/passwd ($REMOTE_USER).";    elif [ "$OLD_UID" = "$NEW_UID" -a "$OLD_GID" = "$NEW_GID" ]; then               echo "UIDs and GIDs are the same ($NEW_UID:$NEW_GID)."; elif [ "$OLD_UID" != "$NEW_UID" -a -n "$EXISTING_USER" ]; then          echo "User with UID exists ($EXISTING_USER=$NEW_UID).";         elif [ "$OLD_GID" != "$NEW_GID" -a -n "$EXISTING_GROUP" ]; then                 echo "Group with GID exists ($EXISTING_GROUP=$NEW_GID).";       else            echo "Updating UID:GID from $OLD_UID:$OLD_GID to $NEW_UID:$NEW_GID.";           sed -i -e "s/\(${REMOTE_USER}:[^:]*:\)[^:]*:[^:]*/\1${NEW_UID}:${NEW_GID}/" /etc/passwd;               if [ "$OLD_GID" != "$NEW_GID" ]; then                    sed -i -e "s/\([^:]*:[^:]*:\)${OLD_GID}:/\1${NEW_GID}:/" /etc/group;            fi;             chown -R $NEW_UID:$NEW_GID $HOME_FOLDER;        fi;
 ---> Running in ef3fc0580327
Updating UID:GID from 9999:9999 to 1000:1000.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a .devcontainer/devcontainer.json that species both "remoteUser": "<some user>" and "updateRemoteUserUID": false.
2. Open the project with vscode and click the "reopen in container" button that pops up
3. Notice the "Updating UID:GID from 9999:9999 to 1000:1000" (or similar) print and the fact that a chown is taking place on your home directory

For this project in particular, my home directory is massive. chowning it takes over ten minutes. I disabled this and have my own more selective chown elsewhere, but it seems a recent release started ignoring updateRemoteUserUID, is that true? How can I disable this?

[kyrofa]

Thank you, @chrmarti :) .

[aeschli]

Waiting for the new dev containers release to verify...

[vscodenpa]

This bug has been fixed in the latest pre-release!

@kyrofa, you can help us out by commenting /verified if things are now working as expected.

Happy Coding!