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On my server, I’ve noticed that I can run docker commands like docker compose up -d or docker run hello-world without root (sudo, su, etc), as if I had done the rootless setup, but docker info reveals “context: default”. I am also not using userns-remap. Any theories for what’s going on here?

Edit: [Solved] @cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone pointed out that users in the docker group can run commands without sudo, after checking, my user is indeed in the group.

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Definitely not new to containers, I’ve just been curious about this for a long time and never found anything online.

this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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