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pibakertoday at 4:45 PM5 repliesview on HN

I was expecting a more sophisticated attack and then I scrolled down…

> Omarchy configured its default user as a member of the Linux docker group.

What the fuck? Docker makes it VERY, VERY clear this is unsafe. Feel free to verify the documentation.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/

Why would you want to make this the default for your users, without even telling them? Did someone configured his own system to work this way and decided it is a good idea to ship it as a part of an "opinionated" distro??? Makes you wonder how much other crap is there.


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dragonwritertoday at 5:27 PM

> Did someone configured his own system to work this way and decided it is a good idea to ship it as a part of an "opinionated" distro???

Isn't that the entire selling point of Omarchy?

k_roytoday at 5:00 PM

Default configuration or not, I also imagine the first thing people using docker do is to add themselves to the docker group via sudo.

If you are security-conscious, you shouldn’t be using docker anyway.

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inigyoutoday at 6:32 PM

I didn't know that was unsafe.

Well, it's not unsafe because anyone who can exploit it has already fully compromised my PC. It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway. But I didn't know that putting an actually locked down account in the docker group was unsafe.

esskaytoday at 5:05 PM

> Why would you want to make this the default for your users

Because DHH doesn't have a clue what he's doing and is farming his brain out to Claude. Again.

qweqwe14today at 4:49 PM

Because it's convenient, and the security of this doesn't matter for desktop usage.

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