diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index acbc118d326668194d0e906a86528841c30260cb..9b9431b52fc9dec28c9c6baacd6bb0438395ab1a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ FROM quay.io/jupyterhub/jupyterhub:latest
 
 COPY jupyterhub_config.py /etc/jupyterhub/jupyterhub_config.py
 
+RUN pip install dockerspawner
+
 CMD ["jupyterhub", "-f", "/etc/jupyterhub/jupyterhub_config.py"]
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diff --git a/jupyterhub_config.py b/jupyterhub_config.py
index dd1a624259fa63dd29f7a712842ce55c6263fa3e..dd28dcc72b93b1d13d25258039bec54127cf0e39 100644
--- a/jupyterhub_config.py
+++ b/jupyterhub_config.py
@@ -1953,7 +1953,7 @@ c.Authenticator.allow_all = True
 #  Note that this does *not* prevent users from accessing files outside of this
 #  path! They can do so with many other means.
 #  Default: ''
-# c.Spawner.notebook_dir = ''
+c.Spawner.notebook_dir = ''
 
 ## Allowed scopes for oauth tokens issued by this server's oauth client.
 #