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NAME

docker-login - Log in to a Docker registry

SYNOPSIS

docker login [OPTIONS] [SERVER]

DESCRIPTION

Log in to a Docker Registry located on the specified SERVER. You can specify a URL or a hostname for the SERVER value. If you do not specify a SERVER, the command uses Docker's public registry located at https://registry-1.docker.io/ by default. To get a username/password for Docker's public registry, create an account on Docker Hub.

docker login requires user to use sudo or be root, except when:

1.
connecting to a remote daemon, such as a docker-machine provisioned docker engine.
2.
user is added to the docker group. This will impact the security of your system; the docker group is root equivalent. See Docker Daemon Attack Surface ⟨https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/#docker-daemon-attack-surface⟩ for details.

You can log into any public or private repository for which you have credentials. When you log in, the command stores encoded credentials in $HOME/.docker/config.json on Linux or %USERPROFILE%/.docker/config.json on Windows.

EXAMPLES

Login to a registry on your localhost

# docker login localhost:8080

See also

docker-logout(1) to log out from a Docker registry.

OPTIONS

-h, --help[=false] help for login

-p, --password="" Password

--password-stdin[=false] Take the password from stdin

-u, --username="" Username

SEE ALSO

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May 2023 Docker Community