Unable to run Docker commands without sudo user in Ubuntu 16.04

Question

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.

Can you please specify what error you are getting?

Régis B.
– Régis B.

2019-08-02 08:18:40 +00:00
Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 8:18 — Régis B.
– Régis B., Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 8:18
The "below error" seems to be missing from the question.

halfer
– halfer

2019-08-02 10:09:58 +00:00
Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 10:09 — halfer
– halfer, Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 10:09

BrunoAFK · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-02 07:40:45Z

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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.

answered Aug 2, 2019 at 7:40

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nimisha Over a year ago

I already tried these commands. My user 'anand' has been added in the group and it is still giving this error after docker restart as well. anand@anand-ThinkPad-P51:~$ id -nG anand adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare

nimisha Over a year ago

I was able to resolve this issue by changing the owner and group of /var/run/docker.sock file as sudo chown anand:docker /var/run/docker.sock. I am now able to run docker commands without sudo also.

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