Permission denied issue for access neo4j docker image's import folder

Neo4j Graph Platform
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We have installed neo4j as docker image in Linux machine.when transfer the .csv file into neo4j import folder using ftp protocol it is throwing permission denied issue.Please help me on this

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Did you check permissions on the folder? Check group, user and read/write bits.

I expect you are mapping the import folder to a folder on the host and ftping to there? If yes, the permissions on the folder will be the username/group that the docker container is running as.

Personally I run my docker containers as a user account (current user), and map the import folder to a folder on the host under that user's home, then that user account will have access to read/write files in the import folder. This is better security practice to not run as root and eliminates permissions issues with root owned folders/files.

Note: If you are you trying to ftp "into" the docker container, know that docker containers (by design/intent) typically only run the very minimum of processes required. (unless you rolled your own docker image, I don't expect it would have ftpd)

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here are a few snippets from my script, I use environment variables so the script can be used for multiple neo4j containers. I create a directory ${NEO_GRAPH_DIR} earlier in the script, and the --user line sets the container to run as current user...

docker run \
  --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
  --name "${CONTAINER}" \
  --detach \
  --env NEO4J_AUTH="${NEO4J_AUTH}" \
  --volume ${NEO_GRAPH_DIR}/data:/data \
  --volume ${NEO_GRAPH_DIR}/import:/import \
  --volume ${NEO_GRAPH_DIR}/plugins:/plugins \
  --volume ${NEO_GRAPH_DIR}/logs:/logs \

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