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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="install-linux-vboxusers">
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| 4 | <title>The vboxusers Group</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>The Linux installers create the system user group <codeph>vboxusers</codeph> during installation. Any system user
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| 8 | who is going to use USB devices from <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> guests must be a member
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| 9 | of that group. A user can be made a member of the group <codeph>vboxusers</codeph> either by using the desktop
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| 10 | user and group tools, or with the following command: </p>
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| 11 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers username</pre>
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| 12 | </body>
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| 14 | </topic>
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