# Adding user to docker group have no effect!

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [July 7, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256 "2015-07-07T14:04:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![ncheltsov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ncheltsov](https://forums.docker.com/u/ncheltsov)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256/1 "2015-07-07T14:04:55Z")

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I know that this might seem a common one, but I was not able to find a solution anywehere on the web:

OS: **Linux 3.14-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.7-1 (2014-06-16) x86\_64 GNU/Linux**  
docker version: **$ sudo docker version**  
**Client version: 1.6.2**  
**Client API version: 1.18**  
**Go version (client): go1.3.3**  
**Git commit (client): 7c8fca2**  
**OS/Arch (client): linux/amd64**

docer running:  
**Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled)**  
**Active: active (running) since Mon 2015-07-06 17:48:32 EEST; 23h ago**  
**Docs: [http://docs.docker.com](http://docs.docker.com)**  
**Main PID: 3261 (docker)**  
**CGroup: name=systemd:/system/docker.service**  
**└─3261 /usr/bin/docker -d -H fd://**

user: **nikolay**  
user added to docker group: **docker:x:127:nikolay**  
docker restarted: **sudo service docker restart**  
OS restarted  
apparmor installed:

Still can not run docker with user **nikolay**  
**docker images**  
**FATA[0000] Get http:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.18/images/json: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory. Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?**

And the most stupid think is that it worked for my user for several hours and then stoped again and nobody knows why!

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![sbasyal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/sbasyal/32/832_2.png) [@sbasyal](https://forums.docker.com/u/sbasyal)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256/2 "2015-07-07T20:51:02Z")

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> [@ncheltsov](#):
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> docker images

Did you try `sudo docker images`?  
If that’s not the case, can you please check if Docker Daemon is actually running? Try `sudo service docker status` and see if it is running?

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**Author:** ![svendowideit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/docker/user_avatar/forums.docker.com/svendowideit/32/119_2.png) [@svendowideit](https://forums.docker.com/u/svendowideit)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256/3 "2015-07-13T01:12:48Z")

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you also need to log out and log back in again to make that shell process  
aware that the user has changed groups.

Sven

Docker Engineer  
Ask me anything …  
Brisbane, Australia (UTC+10)

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**Author:** ![ncheltsov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ncheltsov](https://forums.docker.com/u/ncheltsov)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256/4 "2015-07-13T11:59:11Z")

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yes I tries this

**sudo docker images**

it works  
I need to grant permissions to a concrete user and I can not!  
We think that it is something connected to apparmor application, but don’t understand how.

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**Author:** ![ncheltsov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ncheltsov](https://forums.docker.com/u/ncheltsov)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/adding-user-to-docker-group-have-no-effect/2256/5 "2015-07-13T11:59:47Z")

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I restarted the whole OS, and still the same problem.