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When you first install Docker, you have to execute its commands with sudo. Follow these steps to add your user to the docker group such that there won't be a need to execute with sudo.

Steps

  • Add the docker group if it doesn't already exist:

    sudo groupadd docker

  • Add the connected user "$USER" to the docker group. Change the user name to match your preferred user if you do not want to use your current user:

    sudo gpasswd -a $USER docker

  • Either do a newgrp docker or log out/in to activate the changes to groups.

You can use docker run hello-world to check if you can run Docker without sudo.

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