minishift: RemoteHost install fails due to unprivileged docker version command

General information

• Minishift version: v1.29.0+72fa7b2
• OS: Linux
• Hypervisor: n/a (remote machine on AWS)

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up remote machine according to https://docs.okd.io/latest/minishift/using/run-against-an-existing-machine.html#configuring-existing-remote-machine
2. Ensure passwordless SSH using <user>
3. Ensure <user> has passwordless SUDO rights on remote machine
4. Run minishift start --vm-driver generic --remote-ipaddress <remote_IP_address> --remote-ssh-user <username> --remote-ssh-key <private_ssh_key>

Expected

Minishift deploys OpenShift successfully remote machine. Specifically uses sudo when trying to run docker version --format '{{.Server.APIVersion}}'

Actual

Minishift fails with an error received when trying to run docker version --format '{{.Server.APIVersion}}' on the remote host:

Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.26/version: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied

This is due to the fact that /var/run/docker.sock is owned by root:root. It’s group is not docker nor wheel. Hence any calls to the docker CLI tool should be run via sudo. (see https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/08/why-we-dont-let-non-root-users-run-docker-in-centos-fedora-or-rhel/) Minishift attempts to run this command without sudo

Logs

-- Starting profile 'minishift'
-- Starting the OpenShift cluster using 'generic' hypervisor ...
-- Preparing Remote Machine ..... OK
-- Starting to provision the remote machine .......... OK
Error determining Docker settings: ssh command error:
command : docker version --format '{{.Server.APIVersion}}'
err     : exit status 1
output  : 
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.26/version: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied