Matt, thanks; it works. For conversation's sake, there are a few
different approaches to this solution, correct?
I mean, I can suid to the VMware application to give it superuser or
root rights to do things despite who is logged in or using it.
--or--
I can set the partition in /etc/fstab with a particular gid or uid
limit so a user with a rating par or better can have full use of the
disk/partition.
I want to make sure I understand this stuff so please set me straight.
/mario
>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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>Matt Miller
>Systems Administrator
>MP TotalCare
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