Unable to add self to group vboxusers

Sun Apr 9 19:22:04 UTC 2017

On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 18:30:33 +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
> On 04/09/17 23:54, JD wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 04/09/2017 12:04 PM, Manish Jain wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> I am trying to run VirtualBVox under my under my system, a FreeBSD (p1)
> >> 11 amd64 box with a radeon R5 230 (Caicos) card.
> >>
> >>
> >> I did the following and rebooted :
> >>
> >> a) installed virtualbox-ose via pkg
> >>
> >> b) inserted vboxnet_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
> >>
> >> c) added self to users vboxusers with : 'pw groupmod vboxusers -m <X>'
> >>
> >> d) added the following line to /etc/devfs.rules :
> >>
> >> add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator
> >>
> >> Upon reboot, trying to run VirtualBox gets me :
> >>
> >> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
> >> libGL error: image driver extension not found
> >> libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon
> >> libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied
> >> libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
> >> <html><b>Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=1001 uid=1001
> >> gid=1001) (rc=-10)</b><br/><br/>Please try reinstalling
> >> VirtualBox.<br><br><!--EOM-->where: SUPR3HardenedMain
> >> what:  2
> >> VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied.
> >> </html>
> >> ^C
> >>
> >>
> >> When I run the groups command, I get different results based on
> >> effective UID :
> >>
> >>
> >> a) as root, when I run 'groups <X>', I spot  vboxusers among the groups
> >> for <X>
> >>
> >> b) as normal user, when I run groups I do not see vboxusers among my
> >> groups.
> >>
> >>
> >> I am therefore unable to run VirtualBox. What exactly could be the
> >> problem that leads me into vboxusers not being among my groups ?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help
> >>
> >> Manish Jain
> >>
> > I do not know how you tried to add users to a group, but here is the 
> > CLI command
> > $ sudo |usermod -a -G wheel <username1>
> > Unfortunately, the command only allows the addition of one user at a 
> > time :(
> >
> 
> Strangely, I do not seem to have the usermod command :
> 
> bash: usermod: command not found

It should probably be:

	$ sudo pw usermod -a -G wheel <username1>

The "usermod" is a command option for the pw program;
see "man pw" for details.

Or add /etc/group manually. :-)

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