Hi all. I am trying to setup new virtual macine (WinXp) on VirtualBox v
2.1.0 on suse 11.1 with support of shared folders. When I try to run
the machine I get an error saying
“Cannot open host device ‘/dev/sr0’ for readonly access. Check the
permissions of that device (’/bin/ls -l /dev/sr0’): Most probably you
need to be member of the device group. Make sure that you logout/login
after changing the group settings of the current user
(VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).”
So I gues I have to add the current user the rights for devices, but
looking at the existing groups there is no group named “device”, I added
the group “uucp” but after logout and login I still get the same error.
I would appreciate any help I can get.
ram88 thanks, but I susspect I did gues the right one. I tried to add
“bin” and after logout login that error is gone But I’m still not
sure this is the correct one. Should a normal user be member of bin
group, I mean for security reasons?
No, bin is not a group for normal users. cdrom is the right group for
/dev/sr?. Please don’t go guessing which groups a user should be in, you
are unlikely to find the answer by trial and error. It’s certainly not
uucp. Feel free to ask here.
ken_yap;1917112 Wrote:
> No, bin is not a group for normal users. cdrom is the right group for
> /dev/sr?. Please don’t go guessing which groups a user should be in, you
> are unlikely to find the answer by trial and error. It’s certainly not
> uucp. Feel free to ask here.
Sorry, that was my mistake. The owner for sr0 is the disk group.
:shame:
Thanks guys. If I understood well the normal user can be member of
groups cdrom and disk. Just out of curiosity, what permissions does the
bin group provide? Thanks again for your help. VirtualBox now works ok
with cdrom group
No, disk is not a normal group for users. It’s dangerous because it
allows users to examine the raw disk. Normally this group is only given
to backup programs that dump the whole disk.
bin as a group doesn’t seem to be used much for files these days. You
can check this by doing find / -group bin. I didn’t get any hits but I
interrupted, too bored to wait for the whole scan. I’m having
difficulty remembering what the bin group was used for in Unix. I think
it was a group assigned to program files. These days program files are
usually group root. There isn’t much significance either way, they are
inaccessible to users in either group bin or root.
bin is a primary group for bin user and supplementary group for the
daemon user. Again I would have to dig to understand the significance of
these system users and groups.
But the main thing is: bin is not a group for normal users.
But I’m still not