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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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David Liddle wrote:
> Applications -- VirtualBox in particular -- seems to respond to case in
> /etc/group arbitrarily:
> 
>    1. My domain profile is listed in the concatenated group entries as
>       "DALLAS\liddled" now, including 'vboxusers'.
>    2. 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.
>    3. 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.)


That's strange.  Assuming you mean that you have to log on
using the exact case of the username in the line in /etc/group.
If so, then something is just doing a strcmp().  Not much likewise
can do about that.




cheers, jerry
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