Austin, On Wednesday 27 January 2016 23:28:55 Austin English wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Frank Mehnert <frank.mehn...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 January 2016 00:13:18 Austin English wrote: > >> Well, Virtualbox hadn't compiled, I was hitting > >> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1499. > >> > >> Using a 32-bit kernel instead, I was able to get VirtualBox 4.3.32 to > >> build. The results: > >> > >> # hardened, no sudo > >> amnesia@amnesia:/media/amnesia/e3f702b9-64b4-40c2-96c3-ef6cf856e129/Virtu > >> alB ox-4.3.32/out/linux.x86/release/bin$ ./VirtualBox > >> VirtualBox: Error -10 in SUPR3HardenedMain! > >> VirtualBox: Effective UID is not root (euid=1000 egid=1000 uid=1000 > >> gid=1000) > >> > >> VirtualBox: Tip! It may help to reinstall VirtualBox. > > > > that will not work of course. Running a hardened build from the bin > > directory is not supported. A hardened build will only run if it's > > installed to /opt/VirtualBox and the stubs (VirtualBox, VBoxHeadless, > > VBoxSDL, VBoxNetDHCP, VBoxNetNAT) are installed as suid root. > > Thanks for the tip. Is that documented somewhere? > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions indicates > that a hardened build can from from the build dir if some symlinks are > made (which they were already for me by the build), and some files are > chmod'ed/chown'ed. There's no mention of installing to /opt.
the documentation on that page is outdated. I did some fixes mentioning that running a hardened build from the bin/ directory will not work. The most up-to-date documentation you can find is the source code. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
