diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index cce2643..5df3e0a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ COPY etc/docker/defaults/start-inbucket.sh /
 ENV INBUCKET_SMTP_DISCARDDOMAINS bitbucket.local
 ENV INBUCKET_SMTP_TIMEOUT 30s
 ENV INBUCKET_POP3_TIMEOUT 30s
-ENV INBUCKET_WEB_GREETINGFILE /opt/inbucket/defaults/greeting.html
+ENV INBUCKET_WEB_GREETINGFILE /config/greeting.html
 ENV INBUCKET_WEB_COOKIEAUTHKEY secret-inbucket-session-cookie-key
 ENV INBUCKET_WEB_UIDIR=ui
 ENV INBUCKET_STORAGE_TYPE file
@@ -55,9 +55,5 @@ EXPOSE 2500 9000 1100
 VOLUME /config
 VOLUME /storage
 
-RUN addgroup -g 1000 inbucket && adduser -G inbucket -u 1000 -D inbucket && chown -R inbucket:inbucket /opt/inbucket/ && chmod 774 /opt/inbucket/ -R && chown /start-inbucket.sh && chmod +x /start-inbucket.sh
-
-USER inbucket
-
 ENTRYPOINT ["/start-inbucket.sh"]
 CMD ["-logjson"]
diff --git a/etc/docker/defaults/greeting.html b/etc/docker/defaults/greeting.html
index 242bff9..88b22fd 100644
--- a/etc/docker/defaults/greeting.html
+++ b/etc/docker/defaults/greeting.html
@@ -1,35 +1,17 @@
 <h1>Welcome to Inbucket</h1>
 
 <p>Inbucket is an email testing service; it will accept email for any email
-    address and make it available to view without a password.
-</p>
+address and make it available to view without a password.</p>
 
 <p>To view messages for a particular address, enter the username portion
-    of the address into the box on the upper right and click <em>View</em>.
-</p>
+of the address into the box on the upper right and click <em>View</em>.</p>
 
 <p>This instance of Inbucket is running inside of a <a
-      href="https://www.docker.com/" target="_blank">Docker</a> container.  It is
-    configured to retain messages for a maximum of 3 days, and </br>
-    will enforce a limit of 300 messages per mailbox - the oldest messages will
-    be deleted to stay under that limit.
-</p>
+  href="https://www.docker.com/" target="_blank">Docker</a> container.  It is
+configured to retain messages for a maximum of 3 days, and will enforce a limit
+of 300 messages per mailbox - the oldest messages will be deleted to stay under
+that limit.</p>
 
-<p>
-    Messages addressed to any recipient in the <code>@bitbucket.local</code>
-    domain will be accepted but not written to disk. </br>Use this domain for load or
-    soak testing your application.
-</p>
-
-<p> You can modify this greetings page by changing the Docker environment variable
-    'INBUCKET_WEB_GREETINGFILE' </br>to point to a different greetings.html. If for
-    example you have a greetings file on your local machine and want to mount that
-    you could </br>that file using the docker '--volume' parameter to add your local
-    greetings.html file to the directory '/custom/greetings.html'. </br>You will then
-    set the environment variable INBUCKET_WEB_GREETINGFILE to
-    '/custom/greetings.html'. </br>Your customized file will then be loaded after you
-    start the Docker container.</p>
-<p>
-    This exact greetings file can be found at:
-    https://github.com/inbucket/inbucket/blob/master/etc/docker/defaults/greeting.html.
-</p>
+<p>Messages addressed to any recipient in the <code>@bitbucket.local</code>
+domain will be accepted but not written to disk.  Use this domain for load or
+soak testing your application.</p>
diff --git a/etc/docker/defaults/start-inbucket.sh b/etc/docker/defaults/start-inbucket.sh
index dc7492e..9960437 100755
--- a/etc/docker/defaults/start-inbucket.sh
+++ b/etc/docker/defaults/start-inbucket.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,22 @@
 # description: start inbucket (runs within a docker container)
 
 INBUCKET_HOME="/opt/inbucket"
+CONF_SOURCE="$INBUCKET_HOME/defaults"
+CONF_TARGET="/config"
 
 set -eo pipefail
 
+install_default_config() {
+  local file="$1"
+  local source="$CONF_SOURCE/$file"
+  local target="$CONF_TARGET/$file"
+
+  if [ ! -e "$target" ]; then
+    echo "Installing default $file to $CONF_TARGET"
+    install "$source" "$target"
+  fi
+}
+
+install_default_config "greeting.html"
+
 exec "$INBUCKET_HOME/bin/inbucket" $*