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--- lxc:permissions [2021/01/03 15:58] – peter
+++ lxc:permissions [2021/01/03 16:18] (current) – [Configure Unprivileged Containers] peter
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 **NOTE:**  On Ubuntu systems, a default allocation of 65536 uids and gids is given to every new user on the system, so you should already have one.
-If not, you'll have to use **usermod** to give yourself one.
+If not, you'll have to use **usermod** to give yourself one:
+<code bash>
+sudo usermod --append --groups lxd peter
+</code>
+or
+<code bash>
+sudo usermod -a -G lxd peter
+</code>
+By adding the non-root Unix user account to the lxd group, allows that user to run any lxc commands without prepending sudo.  Without this addition, you would have needed to prepend sudo to each lxc command.
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