# Change userdir of docker image
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246
**Category:** General
**Created:** [17 March 2020 20:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246 "2020-03-17T20:30:00Z")
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### Author:  [@aderici](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aderici)
#### Post date: [17 March 2020 20:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/1 "2020-03-17T20:30:01Z")
Hi,
the docker images in the node red docker hub has a command built in that starts the node red with the user dir of /data . I would like to change that to make it /home what is the best way to achieve this? Can i somehow avoid making my own copy of the docker image so that i wont have trouble upgrading to newer ones,
Best regards,
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### Author:  [@techraf](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/techraf)
#### Post date: [17 March 2020 21:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/2 "2020-03-17T21:10:30Z")
Why would you want that? I'm curious.
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### Author:  [@aderici](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aderici)
#### Post date: [17 March 2020 21:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/3 "2020-03-17T21:13:32Z")
thanks for your interest. I am using microsoft azure platform and web app for containers service.
It automatically persists /home folder for docker containers and nothing else. I would like to utilize this feature specifically.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [17 March 2020 21:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/4 "2020-03-17T21:27:15Z")
the project is hosted here - [https://github.com/node-red/node-red-docker](https://github.com/node-red/node-red-docker) - you can use the docker-custom to build your own image if you like.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [17 March 2020 21:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/5 "2020-03-17T21:27:37Z")
I would probably make that `/home/nrdata` or some such rather than pushing everything into the root home folder.
I'm no Docker expert by any means but I think that you would need to build your own docker image to get this to work?
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### Author:  [@aderici](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/aderici)
#### Post date: [24 March 2020 11:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/6 "2020-03-24T11:13:39Z")
Thank you all, i ended up using @dceejay s answer to build my own custom image and uploading to docker hub.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [7 April 2020 11:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/change-userdir-of-docker-image/23246/7 "2020-04-07T11:13:49Z")
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