Accessing an OU VCE as root

In the OU VCE containers, user sessions are run as the ou user with limited permissions. (Control of services may be enabled using sudo permissions and other sudo permissions may be added to the build configuration script if required).

Only root privileges supported by sudoers settings are available in the hosted VCE.

However, if the VCE container is run locally, a user may connect to the running container as root. This is particularly useful for development and maintenance.

• start a container: docker run --name=demoVCE VCE_IMAGE

• enter the running container as root: docker exec --user 0 -it demoVCE /bin/bash

You should now be able to manage the JupyterLab environment and install additional JupyterLab extensions from the command line, as well as performing Linux system administration functions such installing additional operating system packages, etc., as required.