Run docker without sudo on opensuse

no-sudo-for-docker-on-opensuse

If you have ever used opensuse , you will how much opensuse cares about the holiness of sudo.. want to print a paper? sure but you need sudo access. want to connect to wifi , oh you about you do it with sudo.? 
if dont believe me its true, might have a look at a classic rant by father of Linux , Linus Torvalds who literally goes NSFW on opensuse and its shitty policy mechanism on `sudo`. Check here what Linus said : https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5
anyways, if you wana run docker without sudo, normal recommended way as by docker docs, is to do following:

$ sudo usermod -aG docker <username>

where <username> is the user currently logged in to system. 

so for the mighty highness of opensuse, where everything seems to have shitty grip of reality , here is complete step by step procedure to run docker without sudo :

$ export PATH+=:/usr/sbin
$ sudo usermod -aG docker <username>
$ sudo chown <username> /var/run/docker.sock

and thats it... 
please opensuse, if we are the user of your OS, please let us enjoy the ''privileges' of going sudo while we can ;) 

cheers:)

Hey mate, I found that the chown step was not necessary in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I just had to logout of the full GUI shell (or su $USER in the current shell) to get the kernel to recalculate my group memberships.

Cheers!

Hey mate, I found that the chown step was not necessary in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I just had to logout of the full GUI shell (or su $USER in the current shell) to get the kernel to recalculate my group memberships.

Cheers!

On Leap 15.1 I needed this step

Thanks so much for this, this was driving me nuts.
~6 year later, still same issues. :(