Virtual box error effective uid is not root

Asked By Ben A Ramos 0 points N/A Posted on - 08/12/2014

Hello,

Even the error says that I have to reinstall Virtual Box to solve this, it doesn’t work. I have reinstalled Virtual Box and the error still appears when I run a command. Any solution ? Why I have this error in Virtual Box ?

Thanks !

Effective UID is not root (euid = 1000 egid = 100 uid=1000 gid =100) (rc=10)

It may help to reinstall VirtualBox.

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Answered By Sharath Reddy 590495 points N/A #180552

Virtual box error effective uid is not root

I guess the issue depends on how you configure the security settings in YaST whether your File Permissions is set to Easy, Secure, or Paranoid. Users that set their security settings for File Permissions to Easy don’t normally get this error. To access File Permissions, go to Security and Users, Local Security, Miscellaneous Settings, and then File Permissions.

To stop YaST from resetting the security permissions back to system default, add the following line to “/etc/permissions.local”:

• /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox root:vboxusers 4750

Additionally, for users with VirtualBox 3.1.0, you need to add the following setuid root files to “/etc/permissions.local”:

• /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless root:vboxusers 4750
• /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetAdpCtl root:vboxusers 4750
• /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxNetDHCP root:root 4755
• /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL root:vboxusers 4750
• /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox root:vboxusers 4750

It should fix the problem.

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• Posted on - 08/13/2014
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