[Slackbuilds-users] Slackbuilds.org - Virtualbox Package - /dev/vboxdrvu, /dev/vboxnetctl permissions fix

Heinz Wiesinger pprkut at slackbuilds.org
Sun Dec 21 20:17:42 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 16 December 2014 13:26:38 janusz.kusnierek at akron.net.pl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [..] 
>
> Permissions of the /dev/vboxdrvu and /dev/vboxnetctl are too restrictive
> for regular user, so I've added another rule file called
> 20-virtualbox2.rules with:
> 
> ------
> KERNEL=="vboxdrvu", NAME="vboxdrvu", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers",
> MODE="0660"
> KERNEL=="vboxnetctl", NAME="vboxnetctl", OWNER="root",GROUP="vboxusers",
> MODE="0660"
> ------
> 
> Could You apply this fix (or similar) in Your scripts?
> Thank You :)

Thank you for the heads-up! I completely missed this. I pushed a fix for this 
to my updates branch, but it's slightly different to match what the binary 
installer is doing :)

Grs,
Heinz
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