diff --git a/drupal/content.md b/drupal/content.md
index 62db0836b8d3..133fbd05621e 100644
--- a/drupal/content.md
+++ b/drupal/content.md
@@ -96,3 +96,7 @@ The following Docker Hub features can help with the task of keeping your depende
 
 -	[Automated Builds](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/) let Docker Hub automatically build your Dockerfile each time you push changes to it.
 -	[Repository Links](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/#repository-links) can ensure that your image is also rebuilt any time `%%REPO%%` is updated.
+
+## Running as an arbitrary user
+
+See [the "Running as an arbitrary user" section of the `php` image documentation](https://hub.docker.com/_/php/).
diff --git a/owncloud/content.md b/owncloud/content.md
index ee401d2b4b3c..005480478dcc 100644
--- a/owncloud/content.md
+++ b/owncloud/content.md
@@ -47,3 +47,7 @@ $ docker exec -u www-data some-owncloud php occ status
 ## %%STACK%%
 
 Run `docker stack deploy -c stack.yml %%REPO%%` (or `docker-compose -f stack.yml up`), wait for it to initialize completely, and visit `http://swarm-ip:8080/`, `http://localhost:8080/`, or `http://host-ip:8080` (as appropriate).
+
+## Running as an arbitrary user
+
+See [the "Running as an arbitrary user" section of the `php` image documentation](https://hub.docker.com/_/php/).
diff --git a/php/content.md b/php/content.md
index c272b7f80992..3ac1c1a61c05 100644
--- a/php/content.md
+++ b/php/content.md
@@ -178,6 +178,16 @@ RUN curl -fsSL 'https://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/3.2.0/xcache-3.2.0.tar.
 	&& rm -r /tmp/xcache
 ```
 
+## Running as an arbitrary user
+
+For running the FPM variants as an arbitrary user, the `--user` flag to `docker run` should be used (which can accept both a username/group in the container's `/etc/passwd` file like `--user daemon` or a specific UID/GID like `--user 1000:1000`).
+
+For running the Apache variants as an arbitrary user, there are several choices:
+
+-	If your kernel [is version 4.11 or newer](https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/8460#issuecomment-312459310), you can add `--sysctl net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=0` and then `--user` should work as it does for FPM.
+-	If you adjust the Apache configuration to use an "unprivileged" port (greater than 1024 by default), then `--user` should work as it does for FPM regardless of kernel version.
+-	Otherwise, setting `APACHE_RUN_USER` and/or `APACHE_RUN_GROUP` should have the desired effect (for example, `-e APACHE_RUN_USER=daemon` or `-e APACHE_RUN_USER=#1000` -- see [the Apache `User` directive documentation for details on the expected syntax](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_unixd.html#user)).
+
 ## "`E: Package 'php-XXX' has no installation candidate`"
 
 As of [docker-library/php#542](https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542), this image blocks the installation of Debian's PHP packages. There is some additional discussion of this change in [docker-library/php#551 (comment)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/551#issuecomment-354849074), but the gist is that installing Debian's PHP packages in this image leads to two conflicting installations of PHP in a single image, which is almost certainly not the intended outcome.
diff --git a/wordpress/content.md b/wordpress/content.md
index 560e67b361e5..d1d50e178c5b 100644
--- a/wordpress/content.md
+++ b/wordpress/content.md
@@ -62,3 +62,7 @@ The following Docker Hub features can help with the task of keeping your depende
 
 -	[Automated Builds](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/) let Docker Hub automatically build your Dockerfile each time you push changes to it.
 -	[Repository Links](https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/builds/#repository-links) can ensure that your image is also rebuilt any time `%%REPO%%` is updated.
+
+## Running as an arbitrary user
+
+See [the "Running as an arbitrary user" section of the `php` image documentation](https://hub.docker.com/_/php/).