diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6f988c2..ff49d61 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -55,18 +55,11 @@ ENV PATH="${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin:${PATH}" PYTHONPATH=/backend \
 RUN dnf -y upgrade && dnf -y install python3.11 python3.11-pip ca-certificates pcre-devel \
     && dnf -y autoremove \
     && dnf clean all \
-    && groupadd uwsgi && useradd -g uwsgi uwsgi \
-    && chown -R uwsgi:uwsgi ${VIRTUAL_ENV} \
-    && chown -R uwsgi:uwsgi /usr/share/nltk_data \
     && mkdir -p -m 0744 /backend/storage \
-    && chown -R uwsgi:uwsgi /backend \
     && source "${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin/activate" \
     && pip install --upgrade pip \
     && pip install --upgrade setuptools
 
-USER uwsgi
-EXPOSE 5001
-
 # Start uWSGI
 CMD ["/venv/bin/uwsgi", "--http-auto-chunked", "--http-keepalive"]
 HEALTHCHECK --interval=1m --timeout=5s --retries=2 CMD ["curl", "-s", "-f", "--show-error", "http://localhost:5001/"]