diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 516e00b..aef21c4 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ services:
   news_check: # Creates a small webapp on http://localhost:8080 to check previously generated pdfs (some of which are unusable and must be marked as such)
     build: news_check
     image: news_check:latest
-    # user: 1001:1001 # since the app writes files to the local filesystem, it must be run as the current user
+    user: 1000:1000 # since the app writes files to the local filesystem, it must be run as the current user
     depends_on:
       - db_passthrough
     volumes:
diff --git a/news_fetch/Dockerfile b/news_fetch/Dockerfile
index c40a58e..58298f0 100644
--- a/news_fetch/Dockerfile
+++ b/news_fetch/Dockerfile
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ ENV TZ Europe/Zurich
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y ghostscript
 # for compression of pdfs
 
-RUN useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash --uid 1001 autonews
+# RUN useradd --create-home --shell /bin/bash --uid 1001 autonews
 # id mapped to local user
 # home directory needed for pip package installation
-RUN export PATH=/home/autonews/.local/bin:$PATH
+# RUN export PATH=/home/autonews/.local/bin:$PATH
 
 
 RUN mkdir -p /app/auto_news
-RUN chown -R autonews:autonews /app
-USER autonews
+# RUN chown -R autonews:autonews /app
+# USER autonews
 
 COPY requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
 RUN python3 -m pip install -r /app/requirements.txt