Permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket

ubuntu docker unix-socket
Chandru picture Chandru · Sep 13, 2017 · Viewed 19.2k times · Source

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS whenever trying using docker login command the following warring message will be show : 

docker login
Warning: failed to get default registry endpoint from daemon (Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.30/info: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied). Using system default: https://index.docker.io/v1/
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Username: csomethingr
Password: 
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.30/auth: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied

Any solution?

Answer

Tarun Lalwani picture Tarun Lalwani · Sep 14, 2017

use sudo docker login

or as @Serey mentioned add your user to docker group 

usermod -aG docker $USER

and disconect from your session!

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