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What am I doing wrong ?

Asked by Lynne Stevens

I have this in My File of Fix's

sudo adduser USERNAME vboxusers

Keeps on saying can't do that or says I an not on of Vbox Users yet

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Josh Buttler (joshbuttler) said : 		#1

I was facing the same issue :(

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

For diagnostic purposes, what output do you receive for the following commands (to be executed in a terminal window)

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
whoami
groups
grep -i -e virt -e vbo /etc/groups

and please provide the exact text of the error message which indicates "I an not on of Vbox Users yet" and tell us the command that you execute to receive that message.

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#3

Okay here are your answers

ie@jackie-OptiPlex-7010:~$ uname -a
Linux jackie-OptiPlex-7010 4.15.0-213-generic #224-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 19 13:30:12 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
jackie@jackie-OptiPlex-7010:~$ lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
jackie@jackie-OptiPlex-7010:~$ whoami
jackie
jackie@jackie-OptiPlex-7010:~$ groups
jackie adm dialout cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare vboxusers
jackie@jackie-OptiPlex-7010:~$ grep -l -e virt -a vbo /ect/groups
grep: vbo: No such file or directory
grep: /ect/groups: No such file or directory
jackie@jackie-OptiPlex-7010:~$

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

You mistyped the last command.

And you did not provide the answer to the question:
"and please provide the exact text of the error message which indicates "I an not on of Vbox Users yet" and tell us the command that you execute to receive that message."

Standard support for Ubuntu 18.04 has already ended last year.

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Lynne Stevens (jackie40d) said : 		#5

Yes I know but 22.04 crashed big time . . Took 3 days to go into back door to get files off of it and RE Load 18.04 . . I finally got in and got jackie as a member of Virtual Box group and can see the USB and what ever else Again . . . . So You can cancel this question .. Sorry about not getting back sooner . . Moving and all kinds of stuff going on on this end of the world ! !