Docker ROS GUI tutorial

Question

I have been following the tutorial found here: http://wiki.ros.org/docker/Tutorials/GUI

I can get the insecure method working using xhost +local:root however, I am concerned about security, so would like to use the second method where you pass your /etc/passwd and such to the container. This, however, doesn't work for me, copying the example exactly. Has Docker changed since this was written to not allow this? Note: Due to volume mount time, the $USER field didn't work as it didn't find my user name, so I used my user id instead.

Docker version 19.03.4-ce, build 9013bf583a

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Originally posted by acwatkins on ROS Answers with karma: 11 on 2019-11-17

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Answer 1

The tutorials where written quite a while ago, and in that time a number of projects have cropped up to simplify the task of using GUIs within docker. Rather than hacking on the Xserver and docker runtime arguments yourself, I'd recommend using a particular tool developed for this by OSRF called rocker:

https://github.com/osrf/rocker

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Originally posted by ruffsl with karma: 1094 on 2019-11-20

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