[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#530302: VBoxClient fails to start as non-root

[Felix Geyer]

Package: virtualbox-ose-guest-utils
Version: 2.2.2-dfsg-2
Tags: patch

VBoxClient fails to start as non-root user, but shouldn't as it
is auto-started in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-xclient.

$ VBoxClient --clipboard -d
Failed to connect to the VirtualBox kernel service

When run as non-root VBoxClient uses /dev/vboxuser, but fails to
do so because /dev/vboxuser isn't world read-/writable.

The udev rules in virtualbox-ose-guest-utils are outdated.
The upstream guest additions installer sets the following permissions:
vboxadd  0660 (instead of 0666)
vboxuser 0666


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