tomcat container does not start - maybe UID deviation

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Name and Version

bitnami/tomcat:latest

What steps will reproduce the bug?

by default, the container says at startup:

tomcat 13:47:24.14 ERROR ==> The TOMCAT_PASSWORD environment variable is empty or not set. Set the environment variable ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes to allow a blank password. This is only recommended for development environments.

however, by setting any of the above environment variables, it stops with:

chmod: changing permissions of '/opt/bitnami/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml': Operation not permitted

What is the expected behavior?

container starts

What do you see instead?

the container does not start

Additional information

maybe because the container UID is 1001, but the tomcat user ID in there is 999.

[ZsBT]

additional info: indeed it must be an UID problem as a container with this dockerfile starts:

FROM bitnami/tomcat

USER 999