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

[David Liddle]

Applications -- VirtualBox in particular -- seems to respond to case in /etc/group arbitrarily:

   My domain profile is listed in the concatenated group entries as "DALLAS\liddled" now, including 'vboxusers'.
   If I log on as "dallas\liddled", all of my expected privileges are granted, except that VirtualBox does not perceive that I have right to run the VBox kernel driver.
   If I log on as "DALLAS\liddled", then I have all of my rights and am able to start a VBox VM, though it results in a stop error (BSOD). (There may be permissions on VBox-related directories that I haven't tackled yet. I'm trying to share one VM between my local and domain user accounts.)
Thanks for your help!


"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry at samba.org> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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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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