Docker app: allow usage of the docker group

[ndl101]

Hi.

Currently the official Docker app does not allow users and/or applications to interact with docker without escalating to root privileges and needless to say (but I will anyway) escalating to root privileges is a security concern, especially for long running applications. Normally, a docker group is added to the system (pretty much all Linux based distros does this) to which users and/or applications are added (see the official documentation) and for Ubuntu at least the ownership of the docker socket is set to root:docker and permissions to 660 as below.

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# From my Ubuntu 20.04 system
$ stat -c '%A %a %U:%G %n' /var/run/docker.sock 
srw-rw---- 660 root:docker /var/run/docker.sock

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# From my AS6604T running ADM 4.3.0.RSB1
# stat -c '%A %a %U:%G %n' /var/run/docker.sock 
srw-rw---- 660 root:root /var/run/docker.sock

While this is still the case, we are forced to run applications such as minikube as root which as already stated is not desirable. I am aware that I can easily fix this using using a shell script and cron but it would be super great if this was addressed in the official docker app.

Regards

[ilike2burnthing]

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[ndl101]

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Already submitted a feature request. Posted here for transparency.