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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 2019 00:40:26 -0500
From:      Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   How do you mount a Virtualbox shared folder? Group or permissions issue?
Message-ID:  <CAKD0t1KrEhPG4--2f9J%2BcSVXdDp_JNv7Ztv0PG1eHdPC-NuUKg@mail.gmail.com>

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Does anyone know the procedure for a non-root user to gain access to
Virtualbox shared folders?

This was fairly straightforward in Debian, however I'm having challenges
with FreeBSD.  It looks like a group and permissions issue.  In Debian, I
simply created a group "vboxsf", added my unprivileged user to it, chgrp
the mount folder and then mounted.  I tried this in FreeBSD I used this
procedure, however the group gets changed on the folder to "wheel" after
mounting the shared folder.

Your guidance appreciated.

$ mkdir /mnt/srcr

$ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  vboxsf  512 Nov  6 00:03 /mnt/srcr

$ sudo mount -t vboxvfs Source /mnt/srcr

$ ls -ld /mnt/srcr
drwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  576 Oct 14 21:45 /mnt/srcr

$ whoami
np
$ pwd
/mnt/srcr
$ ls /mnt/src
drwx------  10 root  wheel  320 Oct 14 21:35 X/
$ ls /mnt/src/X
ls: X/: Permission denied



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