How do you mount a Virtualbox shared folder? Group or permissions issue?
Nicholas Papadonis
nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 05:40:39 UTC 2019
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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