Opened 11 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#12201 closed defect (fixed)
Group vboxusers is not a system group -> fixed in releases after 17 Oct 2013, 4.2 and later
| Reported by: | Tedzdog | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.0 |
| Keywords: | vboxusers group | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
The linux installer does not create the 'vboxusers' as a system group, instead it is created as a regular group.
groupadd should be used with the '-r' option in trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/install.sh, and trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/rpm/VirtualBox.tmpl.spec
The Debian installer appears to have the correct behaviour.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
| Summary: | Group vboxusers is not a system group → Group vboxusers is not a system group -> fixed in releases after 17 Oct 2013, 4.2 and later |
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Changed this - I did not do it previously due to compatibility concerns, but the "-r" option seems to be old enough by now for all the distributions we support.
For my education, what is the practical difference (that is, other than the purely numerical one) between a system and a user group?