deactivating network settings

[nuk3z]

Hello Guys,

is it possible to grey out the Network settings for users in virtual box? We are using it in our company for clients who need admin accounts (for project use) but not in intranet. With NAT they can access our network and I want to disable this setting...

Thanks for your answers.

BR

nuk3z

[socratis]

Short answer, no.

• You are giving your users admin access to your computers, and you're worried about an application? Doesn't compute...

Longer answer: maybe yes.

• You could setup the VM, and then "lock" the configuration by issuing the command:

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    VBoxManage setextradata "<VMname>" "GUI/PreventReconfiguration" true

  That would prevent the reconfiguration of the VM, but... as you can imagine a knowledgeable user could easily revert that and have reign over the VM Settings, as they already have for the whole computer. That's security through obfuscation, never worked for real.

[nuk3z]

Thanks for the answer, I will try this out. We dont grant our users admin access on the host, only in VM.

BR

nuk3z

[socratis]

Still the same knowledgeable user could bypass that, because they have R/W access to the VM's settings, the .vbox file.

VirtualBox wasn't designed with the user being in a "kiosk" mode. You can turn some things off, but you can't hide them. Access to the User Manual and a dedicated person can rip through the "security" model like a hot knife through butter...

Good luck!