On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 04:54, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> I'm enjoying running VMware, but I've had to log in as root in X to
> get it to work because it needs access to the hard disk as a raw
> device. Here's my partition layout:
>
> MBR = LILO
> /dev/hda1 = Win98SE
> /dev/hda2 = /boot
> /dev/hda5 = / ext2 Linux
> /dev/hda6 = /swap
>
> VMware uses the native Win98SE partition. If I log in as a normal
> user, I will get denied access to /dev/hda. I would like to give
> access to a particular user to use VMware. How should I approach
> this w/o comprising too much security?
A quick ls -l of hda1 shows the following:
$ ls -l /dev/hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Apr 14 2001 /dev/hda1
Modify the applicable user and add the user to the group "disk" (as you
can see above the group "disk" has rw access):
$ usermod -G disk <username>
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