whoami &> /dev/null || STATUS=$? && true
causes STATUS to be set to an empty string
when the container starts with option --add-group="root"
resulting in both nayvoj and jovyan having uid=1000
and gid=100. The first match in /etc/password wins
and so the container user ends up being "nayvoj"
accidentally.

Avoid this by checking that whoami STATUS is neither blank nor 0
before adding a new /etc/passwd entry