Trying to change user to verdaccio in dockerfile - Crashes the container

Reached out to verdaccio Discord
https://discord.com/channels/388674437219745793/1235628971224465478

Docker-compose linting error, issue opened:
docker/compose#11787

docker-compose.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# name: ${PROJECT} 
+name: ${PROJECT} 
 services:
   verdaccio:
     build:

dockerfile

@@ -9,11 +9,18 @@ USER root
 RUN apk update && apk add curl
 
 # Copy files into container
-COPY --chown=root:root files/conf/config.yaml /verdaccio/conf/config.yaml
-COPY --chown=root:root files/scripts/* /verdaccio/scripts/
+COPY --chown=$VERDACCIO_USER_UID:root files/conf/config.yaml /verdaccio/conf/config.yaml
+COPY --chown=$VERDACCIO_USER_UID:root files/scripts/* /verdaccio/scripts/
 # Script execution permissions
-# RUN chown root:root /verdaccio/scripts/*
 RUN chmod u+x /verdaccio/scripts/*
 
+# Added this, in case the verdaccio user crashes due to having no access to the verdaccio dir
+## It did not solve the problem
+RUN chown $VERDACCIO_USER_UID:root -R /verdaccio
+
+# When this step is enabled, the contianer immediately exits with code 2, no logs, no errors
+# USER $VERDACCIO_USER_UID
+# This step is to avoid the root privileges warning - Verdaccio runs perfectly without it
+
 HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=3s \
     CMD /verdaccio/scripts/healthcheck.sh