vmware-iso: Permission denied /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases with VMWare Workstation 12

[Andy Fraley]

This is more of a VMWare issue, but I'm hoping someone has found an elegant workaround.  I'm using VMWare Workstation 12 on CentOS 7 and running Packer as an unprivileged user.  Using the vmware-iso builder, it needs access to /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases to get the VM ip address.  However, this file is owned by root with perms set at 600.  I changed it to 644 but a short time later it had reverted to 600, so I assume the file is being overwritten.  

This may have something to do with root defaulting to a umask of 077 on our systems, though.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

it seems the installation didn't put your user into vmware group

can you check?

id <username>

if vmware is in the output then log off / log on should the trick

if vmware group is not there i would check the documentation and see what went missed

but checking on internet, could be just matter of . usermod -a -G vmware <user>

check then id <user>

and if group is there, log off / log on

Alvaro

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Andy Fraley <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is more of a VMWare issue, but I'm hoping someone has found an elegant workaround.  I'm using VMWare Workstation 12 on CentOS 7 and running Packer as an unprivileged user.  Using the vmware-iso builder, it needs access to /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases to get the VM ip address.  However, this file is owned by root with perms set at 600.  I changed it to 644 but a short time later it had reverted to 600, so I assume the file is being overwritten.  

This may have something to do with root defaulting to a umask of 077 on our systems, though.

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