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Ajedi32yesterday at 9:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

That's why adding your user account to the docker group is a separate step that explicitly does not happen as part of the installation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/

> Warning

> The docker group grants root-level privileges to the user. For details on how this impacts security in your system, see Docker Daemon Attack Surface.


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HeWhoLurksLateyesterday at 11:09 PM

wait so just being lazy and using sudo on Docker commands instead of figuring things out actually means I'm being safer? awesome.

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ameliusyesterday at 10:54 PM

And containers were supposed to make things safer ...

Huge design mistake if you ask me.

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