tl;dr: dockman changing permissions of /docker an I don’t like it. Is it normal? Am I a control freak?

I’ve been using Linux for years, but always at a user level. Since last year I started tinkering, since I wanted to get out of big tech dependency. Now I’m running a modest home server and it’s been great so far.

The problem I’m facing right now is that the number or docker containers grew up to a point where I thought of using a manager of sorts. Dockman feels good enough for me but it keeps changing permissions of the docker folder to root:root, so I keep getting pushed out.

I guess makes sense that, if I manage everything from Dockman, it would take control, but I really don’t like that I can’t manage permissions of folders on my server or PC and delegating that to a mere docker manager.

Thoughts on this?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    Can you clarify the WHAT here? What is in /docker, your volume mounts, or your layers and internals?

    Also, how are you running it? Local process, or in a container itself?

    • Beardedleftist@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      In /docker I have just the yml and .env files. All the data is on an external volume, docker runs as a local process and Dockman is a container (not sure if this is what you asked, sorry).

      I tried dockge yesterday and I think it does not change permissions, haven’t had time to really check. I just want to select and x number or containers and click update lol until now I had to get into every folder and docker compose pull.

    • Mihies@programming.dev
      6·
      4 days ago

      No problem is a bit of an exaggeration, though. For starters, if your are running with a non-root user, it bites you when trying to share a host volume, specially in SELinux. I can imagine other situations when one has to fiddle with it. But yes, go with podman whenever possible.