Unable to add self to group vboxusers

Sun Apr 9 18:30:37 UTC 2017

On 04/09/17 23:54, JD wrote:
>
>
> On 04/09/2017 12:04 PM, Manish Jain wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I am trying to run VirtualBVox under my under my system, a FreeBSD (p1)
>> 11 amd64 box with a radeon R5 230 (Caicos) card.
>>
>>
>> I did the following and rebooted :
>>
>> a) installed virtualbox-ose via pkg
>>
>> b) inserted vboxnet_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
>>
>> c) added self to users vboxusers with : 'pw groupmod vboxusers -m <X>'
>>
>> d) added the following line to /etc/devfs.rules :
>>
>> add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator
>>
>> Upon reboot, trying to run VirtualBox gets me :
>>
>> libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
>> libGL error: image driver extension not found
>> libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon
>> libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied
>> libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
>> <html><b>Effective UID is not root (euid=1001 egid=1001 uid=1001
>> gid=1001) (rc=-10)</b><br/><br/>Please try reinstalling
>> VirtualBox.<br><br><!--EOM-->where: SUPR3HardenedMain
>> what:  2
>> VERR_PERMISSION_DENIED (-10) - Permission denied.
>> </html>
>> ^C
>>
>>
>> When I run the groups command, I get different results based on
>> effective UID :
>>
>>
>> a) as root, when I run 'groups <X>', I spot  vboxusers among the groups
>> for <X>
>>
>> b) as normal user, when I run groups I do not see vboxusers among my
>> groups.
>>
>>
>> I am therefore unable to run VirtualBox. What exactly could be the
>> problem that leads me into vboxusers not being among my groups ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Manish Jain
>>
> I do not know how you tried to add users to a group, but here is the 
> CLI command
> $ sudo |usermod -a -G wheel <username1>
> Unfortunately, the command only allows the addition of one user at a 
> time :(
>

Strangely, I do not seem to have the usermod command :

bash: usermod: command not found

Thanks and Regards,
Manish Jain