diff --git a/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/docker-utils/src/runDocker.ts b/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/docker-utils/src/runDocker.ts
index fd17a4c74db..66e5980c67e 100644
--- a/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/docker-utils/src/runDocker.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/docker-utils/src/runDocker.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import Docker from "dockerode";
-import os from "os";
 import { Writable } from "stream";
 
 export declare namespace runDocker {
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ async function tryRunDocker({
         }),
         {
             Binds: binds,
-            User: os.userInfo().uid.toString(),
+            User: "root",
         }
     );
 
diff --git a/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/local-workspace-runner/src/run-generator/runGenerator.ts b/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/local-workspace-runner/src/run-generator/runGenerator.ts
index 5cca78a8e16..ad5334b54ed 100644
--- a/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/local-workspace-runner/src/run-generator/runGenerator.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/generation/local-generation/local-workspace-runner/src/run-generator/runGenerator.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 import { AbsoluteFilePath } from "@fern-api/core-utils";
 import { runDocker } from "@fern-api/docker-utils";
 import { writeFile } from "fs/promises";
-import path from "path";
+import { DOCKER_CODEGEN_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, DOCKER_GENERATOR_CONFIG_PATH, DOCKER_PATH_TO_IR } from "./constants";
 import { getGeneratorConfig } from "./getGeneratorConfig";
 
-const DOCKER_FERN_DIRECTORY = "/fern";
-const DOCKER_CODEGEN_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = path.join(DOCKER_FERN_DIRECTORY, "output");
-const DOCKER_GENERATOR_CONFIG_PATH = path.join(DOCKER_FERN_DIRECTORY, "config.json");
-const DOCKER_PATH_TO_IR = path.join(DOCKER_FERN_DIRECTORY, "ir.json");
-
 export declare namespace runGenerator {
     export interface Args {
         imageName: string;