Running tyk gateway using non root user

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Hey, we are currently working on hardening our production envs, and we are migrating from using root user for our docker based services, to other users with defined permissions

I would like to know if there are any specific folder permissions are required. for instance if request payload is limited to a certain size, and written to disk when exceeded

thanks

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Hi!

In a standard setup you need /opt/tyk-gateway to be owned by your non root user.

Thanks
Josh

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My main concern is stuff like buffer size limiting the request payload

For instance nginx writes request body to disk as it exceeds buffer size of 16k

I could not find any resources regarding running it as non root