Even in (the official) docker image, a nginx user is created:
(latest, layer 6)
/bin/sh -c set -x && groupadd --system --gid 101 nginx && useradd --system --gid nginx --no-create-home --home /nonexistent --comment "nginx user" --shell /bin/false --uid 101 nginx .....
[1] https://hub.docker.com/layers/library/nginx/latest/images/sh...
