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linuxdockerubuntusudoprivileges
nimisha
nimisha

Reputation: 31

Unable to run Docker commands without sudo user in Ubuntu 16.04

I am trying to run Docker commands without sudo user, but they are giving me below error:

I following the steps provided online: Created the docker group --> sudo groupadd docker

Add user to the docker group --> sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

restarted VM --> newgrp docker

sudo setfacl -m user:$USER:rw /var/run/docker.sock

restarted docker:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload`
sudo systemctl restart docker

I also tried modifying the visudo file and added my user privileges as below:

sudo visudo
anand   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
anand ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

I even tried changing the owner of my /var/run/docker.sock file to my user. It was with root initially

srw-rw---- 1 root docker 0 Aug 2 12:37 /var/run/docker.sock

I changed owner to below:

srw-rw---- 1 anand anand 0 Aug  2 12:37 /var/run/docker.sock

Finally none of the options seem to work. Kindly suggest some options to fix this issue.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1696

Answers (1)

BrunoAFK
BrunoAFK

Reputation: 126

First, you need to check if your user (or user that you want to use with docker) is in docker group. For that, just run this command:

id -nG

If it says that user is in the docker group, then try again running this command if you want to add an active user:

sudo usermod -aG docker ${USER}

or run this if you want to add some other user:

sudo usermod -aG docker other_username

After you add a user to the group, you need to logout and then login again to apply new group changes.

Upvotes: 1

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