diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 142de4d0..433affe6 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ services:
 
         environment:
             # - REMARK_URL=https://demo.remark42.com
+            - USER
             - REMARK_URL
             - BOLTDB_PATH=/srv/var/db
             - BACKUP_PATH=/srv/var/backup
@@ -38,5 +39,5 @@ services:
             - ./var:/srv/var
             #- ./web:/srv/web # uncomment to map web directory directly. It will propagate local changes to container without redeploy
 
-        user: ${USER} # if local UID != 1001 (default) set `USER` in your env, i.e. export USER=`id -u $USER`
+#        user: ${USER} # if local UID != 1001 (default) set `USER` in your env, i.e. export USER=`id -u $USER`
         command: /srv/start.sh
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index b30eac91..ba296117 100755
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ sed -i "s|BASE_URL:\"[^\"]*\"|BASE_URL:\"${REMARK_URL}\"|g" /srv/web/*.js
 sed -i "s|var baseurl = '[^']*';|var baseurl = '${REMARK_URL}';|g" /srv/web/*.html
 
 echo "start remark42 server"
-/sbin/su-exec umputun /srv/remark server
+
+/sbin/su-exec ${USER} /srv/remark server