VirtualBox

Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#7927 closed defect (fixed)

No error displayed when launching VBoxClient with insufficient permissions -> fixed as of 4.0.2

Reported by: rocks Owned by:
Component: guest additions Version: VirtualBox 3.2.12
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: Linux Host type: Windows

Description

When launching VBoxClient with insufficient permissions, the operation silently fails.

test@vm / $ groups
test
test@vm / $ ls -las /dev/vbox*
0 crw-rw---- 1 vboxguest vboxguest 10, 59 Dec 29  2010 /dev/vboxguest
0 crw-rw---- 1 vboxguest vboxguest 10, 58 Dec 29  2010 /dev/vboxuser
test@vm / $ VBoxClient-all 
test@vm / $ ps aux | grep VBox
test      2057  0.0  0.0   1964   568 pts/1    S+   19:46   0:00 grep --colour=auto VBox

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Michael Thayer, 13 years ago

Summary: No error displayed when launching VBoxClient with insufficient permissionsNo error displayed when launching VBoxClient with insufficient permissions -> fixed as of 4.0.2

This should be fixed in VirtualBox 4.0.2.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 13 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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