iptables v1 6 0 can t initialize iptables -F Permission denied you must be root

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Hi Guys,

I am trying to run iptables program inside docker container, but it shows me the below error.

iptables v1.6.0: can't initialize iptables -F: Permission denied (you must be root)

How can I solve this error?

May 12, 2020 in Docker by akhtar
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Hi@akhtar,

You may get this error, if you didn't give permissions to your container at the time of launching. You can use the below tag at the time of docker run.

$ docker run -it --privileged centos

Hope this will help.

answered May 12, 2020 by MD
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