diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 226da59..6d3bbc0 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ RUN curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
     rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list
 
 # Do the install in user-space
+RUN useradd \
+    --create-home \
+    --shell /bin/zsh \
+    --uid 1000 \
+    --gid 1000 \
+    --non-unique \
+    codespace
 USER codespace
 WORKDIR /tmp/shakefu/home
 
diff --git a/install/linux_amd64/02-brew b/install/linux_amd64/02-brew
index 01a74bd..7bdd9cd 100644
--- a/install/linux_amd64/02-brew
+++ b/install/linux_amd64/02-brew
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ $RUN /bin/bash "$TMP"
 # picked up by dash hopefully
 if ! grep 'linuxbrew' /etc/profile; then
     $RUN echo 'PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"' | sudo tee -a /etc/profile
+    (echo; echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> "$HOME/.profile"
+    eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
 fi
 
 # Linux homebrew does not have permissions for its lock files in this dir, so we