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If you get permission errors when running docker version, follow these instructions (on Linux) to give yourself permissions
- Run
stat /var/run/docker.sockto see the permissions for the docker socket (The file path is printed out when you get a permission error, yours may be different). You should see a line like
Access: (0660/srw-rw----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 1003/ root)
The above tells you that the docker socket belongs to the group with GID 1003 (root) and that the group has neither read nor write permissions.
- Change the socket's group to be yours with
sudo chgrp "$USER" /var/run/docker.sock. Confirm this change by runningstatagain. - Give the group read and write privileges with
sudo chmod g+rw /var/run/docker.sock - Confirm that you can run
docker versionwithout permission errors.