I'm attempting to add myself to a group vboxshare such that my user can access a virtual box shared directory under /media. Seems easy enough.
A quick google search gives a good looking answers: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-add-user-to-group/
(username: allusers)
usermod -a -G vboxsf allusers
Ok, did it, but no bueno, what'd I miss here? Groups have never been a fluently intuitive concept to me in linux. I do see vboxsf as a group in 2 of the 3 commands I presume to use to see what groups are assigned to me.
allusers@vbubuntu:/media$ ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 21 14:03 ./
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 May 25 23:38 ../
drwxr-x---+ 2 root root 4096 May 20 20:21 allusers/
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 May 31 12:20 sf_tempshare/
allusers@vbubuntu:/media$ cd sf_tempshare/
bash: cd: sf_tempshare/: Permission denied
allusers@vbubuntu:/media$ groups
allusers adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
allusers@vbubuntu:/media$ groups allusers
allusers : allusers adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare vboxsf
allusers@vbubuntu:/media$ id allusers
uid=1000(allusers) gid=1000(allusers) groups=1000(allusers),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),108(lpadmin),124(sambashare),999(vboxsf)
