Virtual box USB problems

[Mumia W.]

On 09/23/2008 12:08 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mr Shunz wrote:
> 
>>> Specifically, your /proc/bus/usb/* needs to be writable by the vboxusers
>>> group - it isn't in Ubuntu, and even with the help of the virtualbox
>>> community I haven't been able to figure out the correct udev rules to
>>> make it boot that way.
>> this worked for me (Ubuntu 8.04):
>>
>> open /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh
>>
>> go to the section that says:
>>
>> #
>> # Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
>> #
>>
>> uncomment the lines that follow ...
>>
>> obviusly, add yourself to vboxusers group...
> 
> Yeah, that's the method I've used but it's _wrong_.  As opposed to just
> chmod'ing the nodes, it _will_ work at next boot, but it breaks again the
> next time your "initscripts" package is upgraded (because mountdevsubfs.sh
> is part of that package, and Ubuntu's version will overwrite it - and if
> you're remotely like me, you've forgotten what to do to fix the problem by
> the time that happens).  
> 
> So I've found two options that work by modifying udev - which I can set up
> to always work ahead of anything installed by Ubuntu - but neither of
> those, or my attempt at modification, is actually working :-(

Can't you place a command to set the desired ownership into 
/etc/init.d/rc.local?