Getting permissions denied error when starting vscode devcontainer on MacOS

[craigers521]

Describe the bug
Attempting to use devcontainers in vscode with Finch, the image seems to pull down but doesnt start due to a permissions issue

Steps to reproduce
Create a new devcontainer and open project in container

Expected behavior
The devcontainer starts

Screenshots or logs

[56437 ms] 
[56437 ms] Start: Run in container: ls '/home/vscode/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d' 2>/dev/null
[56447 ms] 
[56447 ms] 
[56447 ms] Exit code 2
[56448 ms] Start: Run: gpgconf --list-dirs
[56452 ms] spawn gpgconf ENOENT
[56452 ms] gpg-agent: No agent-extra-socket found on local host.
[56452 ms] Start: Run in container: /bin/sh
[56454 ms] userEnvProbe: loginInteractiveShell (default)
[56455 ms] Start: Run in container: test -f '/tmp/devcontainers-32c9e38c-e7a6-461b-8555-668360d40f311739314532859/env-loginInteractiveShell.json'
[56455 ms] Start: Run in container: echo ~
[56458 ms] 
[56458 ms] 
[56458 ms] Exit code 1
[56458 ms] Start: Run in container: # Test for /home/vscode/.ssh/known_hosts and ssh
[56458 ms] userEnvProbe: not found in cache
[56459 ms] userEnvProbe shell: /bin/bash
[56460 ms] 
[56461 ms] 
[56461 ms] Start: Run in container: # Copy /Users/craegan/.ssh/known_hosts to /home/vscode/.ssh/known_hosts
[56463 ms] 
[56463 ms] 
[56463 ms] Start: Run in container: command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 && git config --system --replace-all credential.helper '!f() { /home/vscode/.vscode-server/bin/33fc5a94a3f99ebe7087e8fe79fbe1d37a251016/node /tmp/vscode-remote-containers-fcc380f4-cf6d-4671-8bf6-703e42c6292b.js git-credential-helper $*; }; f' || true
[56465 ms] 
[56465 ms] 
[56466 ms] Start: Run in container: for pid in `cd /proc && ls -d [0-9]*`; do { echo $pid ; readlink /proc/$pid/cwd || echo ; readlink /proc/$pid/ns/mnt || echo ; cat /proc/$pid/stat | tr "
[56501 ms] Start: Run in container: cat '/home/vscode/.vscode-server/bin/33fc5a94a3f99ebe7087e8fe79fbe1d37a251016/product.json'
[56507 ms] Command in container failed: cat '/home/vscode/.vscode-server/bin/33fc5a94a3f99ebe7087e8fe79fbe1d37a251016/product.json'
[56507 ms] cat: /home/vscode/.vscode-server/bin/33fc5a94a3f99ebe7087e8fe79fbe1d37a251016/product.json: Permission denied
[56507 ms] Exit code 1
[56740 ms] /home/vscode
[56740 ms] 
[56740 ms] Start: Run in container: cat <<'EOF-/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-fcc380f4-cf6d-4671-8bf6-703e42c6292b.js' >/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-fcc380f4-cf6d-4671-8bf6-703e42c6292b.js
[56742 ms] 
[56742 ms] 
[56742 ms] Start: Run in container: cat <<'EOF-/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-server-fcc380f4-cf6d-4671-8bf6-703e42c6292b.js' >/tmp/vscode-remote-containers-server-fcc380f4-cf6d-4671-8bf6-703e42c6292b.js_1739314590297
[56745 ms] 
[56745 ms] 
[56747 ms] Container server: /bin/sh: 32: /home/vscode/.vscode-server/bin/33fc5a94a3f99ebe7087e8fe79fbe1d37a251016/node: Permission denied
[56750 ms] Container server: time="2025-02-11T16:56:30-06:00" level=fatal msg="exec failed with exit code 126"
[56758 ms] Error reading shell environment.
[56758 ms] Error: stream ended with:0 but wanted:9
        at l (/Users/craegan/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers-0.397.0/dist/extension/extension.js:27:22149)
        at /Users/craegan/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers-0.397.0/dist/extension/extension.js:27:22330
        at s (/Users/craegan/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers-0.397.0/dist/extension/extension.js:30:5371)
        at Socket.<anonymous> (/Users/craegan/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers-0.397.0/dist/extension/extension.js:30:5541)
        at Socket.emit (node:events:530:35)
        at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1698:12)
        at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
[56758 ms] Start: Run in container: mkdir -p '/tmp/devcontainers-32c9e38c-e7a6-461b-8555-668360d40f311739314532859' && cat > '/tmp/devcontainers-32c9e38c-e7a6-461b-8555-668360d40f311739314532859/env-loginInteractiveShell.json' << 'envJSON'
[56758 ms] Container server terminated (code: 1, signal: null).
[56758 ms] Container server terminated early. Not reconnecting.
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[Shubhranshu153]

May be we can use the remoteUser option in devcontainer.json to start container in the specified user of the container image.