whoami command fails in openshift 4.12 pod

4.12

deploy a pod with given steps

1. Create a new project
2. # pod with this image does NOT print uid successfully
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: testsshiso
  namespace: jmorenas-dev
  annotations:
    seccomp.security.alpha.kubernetes.io/pod: 'runtime/default'
spec:
  containers:
  - name: testssh
    image: registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-23/ee-minimal-rhel8:1.0.0-274
    command: ["whoami"]
    securityContext:
      allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
      runAsNonRoot: true
      capabilities:
        drop:
        - ALL
 3. Then check the logs for the newly spawned pods, and you will see it does not returns the uid.

4 whereas, if you use another image like registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi it will return UID.  

registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-23/ee-minimal-rhel8:1.0.0-274 not returning userid in /etc/passwd

registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-23/ee-minimal-rhel8:1.0.0-274 should return userid in /etc/passwd as its permission is differ from other images (correct one is 644, but its permission is 664)

The permissions on the "/etc/passwd" files differ on both images. The AAP image has 664 whereas the UBI image has 644.
AAP pod:
sh-4.4$ ls -l /etc/passwd;
-rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 533 Mar  7 00:15 /etc/passwdubi9 pod:
sh-5.1$ ls -l /etc/passwd;
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 837 Jul  6 10:57 /etc/passwd