[Likewise-open-discuss] Small problem adding domain user to a group

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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David Liddle wrote:

> To make sure that I can do everything in my domain 
> profile that I'm accustomed to doing in my local
> profile (Ubuntu 8.04), I have added my domain user
> name (DALLAS\liddled) to all the same groups in:
> 
> /etc/group
> 
> Doing so automatically enabled me as a 'sudoer', since I 
> am now part of the 'admin' group. However, VirtualBox
> does not seem to recognize that my domain account
> is part of the 'vboxusers' group, as required for
> access to VirtualBox kernel driver (/dev/vboxdrv). I 
> suppose I could open up permissions on that directory,
> but I don't really want to do that.

Should be fine.  have you logged out and back in again ?
Or restarted the VirtualBox service? Frequently services
will cache group membership on startup.




cheers, jerry
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