diff --git a/dockerfile-kasm-core-kasmos b/dockerfile-kasm-core-kasmos
index fccc58f..10d90b9 100644
--- a/dockerfile-kasm-core-kasmos
+++ b/dockerfile-kasm-core-kasmos
@@ -148,9 +148,8 @@ WORKDIR $HOME
 RUN mkdir -p $HOME && chown -R 1000:0 $HOME
 
 ### Create user exclusively for session recording purposes
-RUN (groupadd -g 1001 kasm-recorder \
-    && useradd -M -u 1001 -g 1001 kasm-recorder \
-    && usermod -a -G kasm-recorder) ; exit 0
+RUN groupadd -g 1001 kasm-recorder \
+    && useradd -M -u 1001 -g 1001 kasm-recorder
 
 ### FIX PERMISSIONS ## Objective is to change the owner of non-home paths to root, remove write permissions, and set execute where required
 # these files are created on container first exec, by the default user, so we have to create them since default will not have write perm