Cannot create new Rust project with Docker: “could not determine the current user”

Following the Docker documentation for Rust, I can't create a new project using cargo new without getting could not determine the current user, please set $USER. Here's the command I'm using:

cargo new

could not determine the current user, please set $USER

docker run -it --rm -v "$PWD":/app -w /app rust:1.27.0-slim-stretch cargo new project --bin


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Forwarding the $USER environment variable from my machine seems to do the trick:

$USER

docker run -it --rm -e USER=$USER -v "$PWD":/app -w /app rust:1.27.0-slim-stretch cargo new project --bin


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