Socket: connect: permission denied

Docker Desktop
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I’m trying to build environmet for my project.
It’s the first time I’m using Docker, I did everything according to the documentation provided…

The hello world image test works with no problem, my docker runs according to my terminal.

But when I try to enter this in the terminal

docker buil buildenv -t osproject-buildenv

it gives me the following error:

docker build buildenv -t osproject-buildenv
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Post "http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/build?buildargs=%7B%7D&cachefrom=%5B%5D&cgroupparent=&cpuperiod=0&cpuquota=0&cpusetcpus=&cpusetmems=&cpushares=0&dockerfile=Dockerfile&labels=%7B%7D&memory=0&memswap=0&networkmode=default&rm=1&shmsize=0&t=osproject-buildenv&target=&ulimits=null&version=1": dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied

I’m using Linux Debian.

Could someone help me to find out what’s the problem and how to fix it?

2

docker run and docker build would use the same socket. Are you sure you did not run docker run as root and then docker build as a non-root user? The socket name does not seem like the socket of Docker Desktop. I don’t have Docker Desktop for Linux currently, so I can’t check it.

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Thanks a lot! Due to your answer, I just noticed I was doing it without accesing as a root user…
I applied the same command as a root user and now it works.