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coolblue2000
coolblue2000

Reputation: 4928

How do I add myself to the docker-users group on Windows?

I am getting the following error:

The current user is not in the 'docker-users' group. Add yourself to the 'docker-users' group and then log out and back in to Windows.

How do I resolve this error on Windows?

Upvotes: 136

Views: 286922

Answers (6)

Pradyumna Revur
Pradyumna Revur

Reputation: 2301

Run this command from an administrator command window to add your user id to the docker-users group and log back into your user account for it to take effect.

net localgroup docker-users "your-user-id" /ADD

your-user-id is your local Windows user name. You can determine this by looking at the folder name under C:\Users\ or use in the command window whoami to show it.

TIP: You probably will need to restart the system, to make the change active.

Upvotes: 230

Arif Hosain
Arif Hosain

Reputation: 168

I faced exact same issue, just uninstalled and then re-installed docker desktop it worked.

Upvotes: 1

Muhammad Awais
Muhammad Awais

Reputation: 4502

In my case, I just uninstalled and reinstalled the docker and it is fine now.

Upvotes: 0

cederlof
cederlof

Reputation: 7383

If you are installing Docker Desktop from Chocolatey, you might only need a restart, as you are put in that group automatically.

Upvotes: 4

Raw_Wish
Raw_Wish

Reputation: 188

Try restarting the system, that worked for me, as it pushed me to the group automatically.

Upvotes: 6

Belekz
Belekz

Reputation: 589

It might occur that the user-group "docker-users" not exist on your machine. In that case enter the following commands in the Powershell

New-LocalGroup -Name 'docker-users' -Description 'docker Users Group'

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group 'Administrators' -Member ('docker-users') –Verbose

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group 'docker-users' -Member ('Username','Administrators') –Verbose

Upvotes: 16

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