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Running docker compose the right way (lemmy.ml)
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I'm having some problems installing Vaultwarden and I wonder if it because I'm running docker compose in the wrong way and there are user permission issues.

What is the right way of installing docker compose (on a linux VM)? In in the past I would create a docker folder /home/user/docker. In there I would create the folder firefly or whatever and then I would run docker compose as user. So, when installing firefly, I would be in the /home/user/docker/firefly and run docker compose from within. Not as root (using sudo) but as a the normal user user. Firefly service would just run without problmes. Shoudl I be installing containers this way of shoudl I be using root (sudo)?

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[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 1 points 1 month ago

Also, keep in mind that the docker group effectively grants root access.

The account can then mount any file or directory into a container and do whatever it wants.

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