[CentOS-devel] docker group not exists in rpm

[Farkas Levente]

On 12/07/2015 05:17 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
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>> sudo usermod -a -G docker <your-user>
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>> is this still valid?
> 
> Yes, but you first have to add the docker group yourself.
> 
> 
>> or how can an average user can run docker without sudo?
> 
> 
> a simple "groupadd docker" will work, then restart the docker service
> and add your user to that group.
> 
> Note, it's *trivial* to escalate this to gain root on the host system,
> so using the docker group is essentially passwordless sudo.

but the name of the docker group is somehow hardcoded into docker itself?

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