@surajd Why aren't you using the Python S2I builders for OpenShift?

When you run anything under OpenShift, it will assign your project a UID which any containers are forced to run under. The OpenShift containers include a mechanism using a package call nss_wrapper so that correct passwd entries are reported for the assigned UID. If your own image doesn't have a similar provision, and in general aren't designed to run as an arbitrary assigned UID, you will encounter various issues.

Read through the latter section of posts in:

* http://blog.dscpl.com.au/p/using-python-with-docker.html

for further details.

Anyway, this isn't the place to discuss OpenShift, use instead:

* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openshift

if you have questions about running Python under OpenShift.