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superlex

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Registered: 2025-03-08

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Docker install fails to give non-root user docker-cli access

As far as I know this is straight off the wiki. Maybe I missed an important line on my first or second read of it.
It of course works with `sudo docker info`, but the app I want to use that requires docker expects me to have docker cli access, and it would be a terrible idea to run it as root.

sudo systemctl disable --now docker.socket
sudo systemctl disable --now docker.service
sudo pacman -Rsnuc docker
sudo rm -r /var/lib/docker /run/docker*

> cat /etc/group | rg docker
docker:x:961:lex
systemctl reboot

sudo pacman -Syu docker
sudo systemctl enable --now docker.service
docker info
Client:
 Version:    28.4.0
 Context:    desktop-linux
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-ai" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-ai: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-cloud" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-cloud: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-debug" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-debug: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-desktop" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-desktop: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-extension" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-extension: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-init" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-init: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-mcp" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-mcp: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-sbom" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-sbom: no such file or directory
WARNING: Plugin "/home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-scout" is not valid: failed to fetch metadata: fork/exec /home/lex/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-scout: no such file or directory

Server:
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///home/lex/.docker/desktop/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?

Last edited by superlex (2025-09-20 01:32:29)

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Registered: 2024-02-29

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Re: Docker install fails to give non-root user docker-cli access

and it would be a terrible idea to run it as root.

Read this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ … stinstall/

and this: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security … ck-surface

To run the application without root you will need to setup the user inside the container not as 0, which is root. Also try to setup some linux capabilities.

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