Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:17:44 +0000 From: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running VirtualBox as non-root user Message-ID: <20210929181744.GA69504@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2ByoEx9iL_%2BjHH1tmmt9qAQRYTxq1uO_hscx0VKZ9%2BEL=f0DOQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2ByoEx9iL_%2BjHH1tmmt9qAQRYTxq1uO_hscx0VKZ9%2BEL=f0DOQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:00:43PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > Hi; > > Here is what I've done so far: > > - Created user vbox and put it in vboxuser group > - Went as far as chown -R vbox:vboxuser /usr/local/lib/virtualbox > - Executables are with the SUiD bit set > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxSDL > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 16064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxNetAdpCtl > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxNetDHCP > -r-s--x--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32064 Sep 21 22:18 VBoxNetNAT > -r-s--s--- 1 vbox vboxusers 32352 Sep 22 17:55 VirtualBoxVM > > - Imported a test VM > - Ran the VM as root to make sure it's working > - started VirtualBox as user vbox, and it starts fine > > VirtualBox GUI starts fine as user vbox but when I try to start the test VM > from it, I get: > > Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=920 uid=1001 gid=1001) (rc=-10) > where: SUPR3HardenedMain what: 2 VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission > denied. > > Starting it from VirtualBoxVM --startvm test issues the same error: > > VirtualBoxVM: Error -10 in SUPR3HardenedMain! > VirtualBoxVM: Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=920 uid=1001 > gid=1001) > where: SUPR3HardenedMain > what: 2 > VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied. > > Any pointer for anything else I should be doing or is missing? > Add your user to the vboxusers group in /etc/group. Glen [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEjRJAPC5sqwhs9k2jAxRYpUeP4pMFAmFUrcgACgkQAxRYpUeP 4pPtfw/8CPHx4q2lFiImauVrqE/ShumLjW0hT4ZB03uUmWgsOaNeBhyA6HzRTOz9 bmXjacqKDDFkPhRQegp5Eo4R3GpIqGVblWXLPUMEeYSIQ5hMprc2I2d6AYKi0ZYb NIooAHqQ58bcCVrn+BR3dA7NJk6KLIdzCPGH9+Fb/7TfvC84fE93L/11tSL5If5H nr1qbEhigG3DIPz7bt3faTf++7zkuoWCOhwKXXvVyaFD1D+FTKqhrrgeqBr7ODLh XQCJlejW+QnYwgfkB4bMsp9ua4TUgkzkjAEYhGtMHhiKfqy0duZHnGoxMW/rXweE FERt6EKSNjDFTSgJDkK9kgJ9GbPCAuVwkC3tXycu8dtQxGqSqemXtGkrWkBRS3nn fNBkJF89PzjN3PVAp0OiGTlFR/SiyVp69lkS572XlYKKfu3JnvH3ipRx3L53WRJq t7I5SaaWfVAuRBJh+JhK9AB7BDettN8W2poV2SoMseU7uNobzYpfTfHzVRDDVG98 pTfpPf5YNTDYIOzXGefTW0x903v6EaE9kYib6iquGqeb5Hxum4W44Z8aSTh/THrr CuqkRdwSv0w6pe8xxUlowM49Uu982Iszm3K3bK4AIWB0HT9j4X8D/x9p8daC0PtF u2wkJCFPBxg19zvTN58YYjDn+tKT/rgPlsk/09fV1JjhP2i/3LA= =C9YU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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