Clarify user requirements for Linux container setup #4336
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Added note for users running on Linux containers regarding the root user.
Koenkk
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Oct 27, 2025
| ::: tip USER | ||
| > If you are using a linux container (proxmox lxc) edit above with USER=root. |
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| > If you are using a linux container (proxmox lxc) edit above with USER=root. | |
| > If you are using a Linux container (Promox LXC) edit above with `USER=root`. |
Koenkk
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| For the sake of simplicity this guide assumes running on a Raspberry Pi 4, but it should work on any Linux machine. | ||
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| Therefore the user `pi` is used the following examples, but the user may differ between distributions e.g. `openhabian` should be used on Openhabian. | ||
| If you are using a linux container (proxmox), user will be 'root'. |
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Let's remove this line, it's not the intention to cover all cases, just an example
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Why not use the Docker container in this case? |
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Added note for users running on Linux containers regarding the root user.