docker.sock: connect: permission denied

17 Jul, 2021

Scenario:

You are running “docker ps” command and it results in this error-

Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/containers/json": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied

Solution:

sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

sudo setfacl --modify user::rw /var/run/docker.sock

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