diff --git a/pkg/container_config.go b/pkg/container_config.go
index d91fccd1..c6901974 100644
--- a/pkg/container_config.go
+++ b/pkg/container_config.go
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@ func getDevices(hookConfig *HookConfig, env map[string]string, mounts []Mount, p
 		return devices
 	}
 
-	// Error out otherwise
-	log.Panicln("insufficient privileges to read device list from NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES envvar")
+	log.Printf("Ignoring devices specified in NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES (privileged=%v, config.accept-nvidia-visible-devices-envvar-when-unprivileged=%v) ", privileged, hookConfig.AcceptEnvvarUnprivileged)
 
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/container_test.go b/pkg/container_test.go
index e5f0302e..4fec7dc3 100644
--- a/pkg/container_test.go
+++ b/pkg/container_test.go
@@ -540,7 +540,6 @@ func TestDeviceListSourcePriority(t *testing.T) {
 		acceptUnprivileged bool
 		acceptMounts       bool
 		expectedDevices    *string
-		expectedPanic      bool
 	}{
 		{
 			description: "Mount devices, unprivileged, no accept unprivileged",
@@ -567,7 +566,7 @@ func TestDeviceListSourcePriority(t *testing.T) {
 			privileged:         false,
 			acceptUnprivileged: false,
 			acceptMounts:       true,
-			expectedPanic:      true,
+			expectedDevices:    nil,
 		},
 		{
 			description:        "No mount devices, privileged, no accept unprivileged",
@@ -621,7 +620,7 @@ func TestDeviceListSourcePriority(t *testing.T) {
 			privileged:         false,
 			acceptUnprivileged: false,
 			acceptMounts:       false,
-			expectedPanic:      true,
+			expectedDevices:    nil,
 		},
 	}
 	for _, tc := range tests {
@@ -638,12 +637,6 @@ func TestDeviceListSourcePriority(t *testing.T) {
 				devices = getDevices(&hookConfig, env, tc.mountDevices, tc.privileged, false)
 			}
 
-			// For any tests that are expected to panic, make sure they do.
-			if tc.expectedPanic {
-				mustPanic(t, getDevices)
-				return
-			}
-
 			// For all other tests, just grab the devices and check the results
 			getDevices()
 			if !reflect.DeepEqual(devices, tc.expectedDevices) {