Role of docker daemon in 'docker login to a registry'

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Hi,

The query is that - Does 'docker login -u username -p psw ’ requires docker daemon to be up and running?

In my case, the docker client and docker daemon were on different machines, and docker daemon was not running.

I ran the docker login -u username -p psw < registryaddre> and it executed, and even created entries in config.json

Does this mean that this command does not need docker daemon?

Please help clarify

Regards,ac

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You are just using the docker client in this case.