Opened 16 years ago
Last modified 13 years ago
#3852 new enhancement
vboxusers group should be added as a system group, not as an ordinary group
Reported by: | Cristian Ciupitu | Owned by: | |
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Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 2.2.0 |
Keywords: | rpm | Cc: | |
Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
When installing VirtualBox-2.2.0_45846_fedora9-1.i386.rpm (on Fedora 10) a vboxusers group is created. Unfortunately it is created as an ordinary group and not as a system group, which means that it can clash with other (older) groups which haven't been (re)added yet to /etc/group.
The problem can be fixed by running groupadd with the -r parameter. Quoting from the man page:
-r This flag instructs groupadd to add a system account. The first available gid lower than 500 will be automatically selected unless the -g option is also given on the command line. This is an option added by Red Hat.
It's still present in VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.6_74713_fedora16-1.x86_64.rpm.