ports/182469: emulators/virtualbox-ose VNC extension has incorrect perms
Peter Jeremy
peter at rulingia.com
Sat Sep 28 22:30:01 UTC 2013
>Number: 182469
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: emulators/virtualbox-ose VNC extension has incorrect perms
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 28 22:30:01 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Peter Jeremy
>Release: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD server.rulingia.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #21: Wed Jul 10 19:50:48 EST 2013 root at server.rulingia.com:/var/obj/usr/src/sys/server amd64
virtualbox-ose-4.2.18-1
>Description:
If the VNC extension is enabled (the default), the actual extension
package is installed under the ownership of the person who built
VBox, rather than root. As a result, VBox refuses to use the VNC
extension.
>How-To-Repeat:
server% VBoxManage list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0: VNC
Version:
Revision: 0
Edition:
Description:
VRDE Module:
Usable: false
Why unusable: The owner is not root: '/usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC' (rc=VERR_SUPLIB_OWNER_NOT_ROOT)
>Fix:
sudo chown -R root /usr/local/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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