avoiding passwords in Dockerfile (or having to type passwords is inconvenient anyway)

[bjornicus]

I've been playing around a bit with this starting with your base X11 capable docker image Dockerfile and wasn't satisfied with the password being hard coded in the Dockerfile, or really with having to type a password when I ssh to the container at all, so instead have set it up to use authorized_keys by mounting the public key as the authorized_keys file in the container:

docker run -d -p 2222:22 -v ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:/home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys devbox

Here's the gist with my whole dockerfile (setting it up to use vs code as the editor):
https://gist.github.com/bjornicus/66f03c93717590ae3e2694b759ef00db

Feel free to borrow from that if you like, or maybe you already have a solution to this and I just missed it.

[lifeisstillgood]

Thats a nice idea - I have been distracted with some yak shaving and will get back to you - I would love to incorporate it and thank you for your efforts :-)