Trying to add to sudo gpasswd a $USER vboxusers results in no vboxusers?
Trying to run a Virtualbox instance and access a USB device connected to the host PC. I tried to run the above command (changing the $user to me) and the response was :
gpasswd: user ‘vboxusers’ does not exist
Version 6.1 of Virtualbox, with Extensions installed.
EDIT: Seems it was the wrong syntax, should have been
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers <your_username>
The syntax of gpasswd is correct - assuming virtualbox is correct installed.
The group vboxusers does not exist on the guest - but the host as it is the user on the host which initiates USB passthrough.
$ groups
network scanner lp wheel manjaro
$ grep vbox /etc/group
vboxusers:x:108:
$ sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers
Adding user manjaro to group vboxusers
The usermod command can used as well.
Two ways to achieve the same result but on the host.