# /usr/bin/docker permissions

**URL:** <https://forums.docker.com/t/usr-bin-docker-permissions/74242>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/usr-bin-docker-permissions/74242 "2019-05-03T20:02:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex067](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@alex067](https://forums.docker.com/u/alex067)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/usr-bin-docker-permissions/74242/1 "2019-05-03T20:02:25Z")

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Hey guys.

In terms of best practices and security, is it okay to change the permissions of the /usr/bin/docker and /var/run/docker?

We have a container that needs to execute docker commands. We bind mount the /usr/bin/docker and /var/run/docker.socket, instead of installing docker into the container.

But, the problem is that those folders have permissions set only for the root user to rwx.

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**Author:** ![userfromarmenia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f07891/32.png) [@userfromarmenia](https://forums.docker.com/u/userfromarmenia)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/usr-bin-docker-permissions/74242/2 "2019-05-03T20:19:42Z")

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> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/477551/how-can-i-use-docker-without-sudo>

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**Author:** ![alex067](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@alex067](https://forums.docker.com/u/alex067)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.docker.com/t/usr-bin-docker-permissions/74242/3 "2019-05-03T20:55:06Z")

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The only problem is that the user we need to add, is a user that’s inside the container.

So the container makes this user. Is there anyway to reference this user to the host machine?