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This effectively makes the applications believe that <code>/</code> is the home directory. If you use <code>ssh</code> or any similar application, this can quickly become a nightmare.</p><p>If you want to debug something as <code>gitlab-runner</code> user, this wouldn’t also work, and error out with <code>account is not available.</code></p><p>Both of these issues can be fixed simply by adding this entry to <code>/etc/passwd</code></p><div class=highlight><pre tabindex=0 class=chroma><code class=language-bash data-lang=bash><span class=line><span class=cl>gitlab-runner❌63450:63450:GitLab Runner:/var/lib/gitlab-runner:/bin/bash
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