nvidia-docker not working correctly on machines where sudo is required to run docker

[elezar]

On machines where sudo permissions are required for docker (see for exampel the discussion on/etc/sudoers from http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/08/why-we-dont-let-non-root-users-run-docker-in-centos-fedora-or-rhel/), the nvidia-docker script does not seem to work as expected.

I have tried the following:

1. Added alias docker='sudo /usr/bin/docker' to ~/.bashrc
2. Added alias docker='sudo /usr/bin/docker' to ~/.profile

But the alias not correctly propagated to nvidia-docker.

Adding alias docker='sudo /usr/bin/docker' to the top of the nvidia-docker script directly allows for the script to work correctly in this setting.

Any pointers on how this could be addressed locally?

[3XX0]

Aliases are not propagated through non-interactive shells hence your error.
What you can do instead is using sudo on the nvidia-docker script: alias docker='sudo nvidia-docker'

[elezar]

The problem is that I have only been given sudo access (without password)
for running "/usr/bin/docker" on this particular machine. This means that I
cannot use an alias for nvidia-docker directly.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:26 PM Jonathan Calmels notifications@github.com
wrote:

Aliases are not propagated through non-interactive shells hence your error.
What you can do instead is using sudo on the nvidia-docker script:
alias docker='sudo nvidia-docker'

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[3XX0]

You should now be able to do: DOCKER='sudo docker' ./nvidia-docker ...