Initialization of FreeCAD failed for non-root user

[Muerio]

Hi,

I'm trying to use your container to generate CAD models.
Since I don't have root permissions on the host system I'm trying to generate the CAD files with ownership set to my user id.

I run the container with the option -u UID:GID. id reports the right IDs for the user.

But when starting python, I get the following output

I have no name!@75d087d8d5b6:/home$ python3.8
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jul 20 2020, 19:48:14)
[GCC 7.5.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Initialization of FreeCAD failed:
While initializing FreeCAD the following exception occurred: 'Getting HOME path from system failed!'


Please contact the application's support team for more information.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/.startup.py", line 1, in <module>
    import FreeCAD
ImportError: Failed to load FreeCAD module!
>>>

I looked around the forum, but didn't find any solutions.
Do you know of a way to fix this?