Describe the Bug
When I open a devcontainer using the Anysphere extension with a default devcontainer.json file, the default user is root.
Steps to Reproduce
Use the following minimal configuration to reproduce
{
"name": "C++ Dev Container",
"image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/cpp:1-ubuntu-24.04"
}
And then Ctrl+Shift+P and select “Dev Containers: Reopen in Container”
Expected Behavior
The VSCode Dev Container extension will open the container with the vscode user. This is baked into the base image that this image "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/cpp:1-ubuntu-24.04" is based on.
I would expect that switching to Cursor, and mandating the use of the Anysphere extension should result in the same behaviour.
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.2.4 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T17:09:01.383Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Additional Information
A workaround for this would be of course to add “vscode” as a remote user but I don’t know how much of an issue this would be if people are working collaboratively where some people are using VSCode and others are using Cursor.
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue
