About at the end of my tether with my webcam

[Doug Rintoul]

Darryl LeCount wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> it looks like your /dev/video0 is owned by root. Could you give us the
>> result of ls -l /dev/video0 ?
>>
>> It that case you may use chown to grab the /etc/video0 device
>>
>> G. 
> 
> Hi Gerard,
> 
> The /dev/video0 is indeed owned by root, but this is meant to be.
> Allowing a chmod 777 (which does the same thing as chowning to the
> current user) is a security risk and chowning the /dev/video0 (which
> didn't do anything) to me only means that no other users on this system
> could access it.
> 
> D
> 
My /dev/video0 has the following permissions:

crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-06-27 17:51 /dev/video0

Adding myself to the video group and logging off and on again gives me 
access to /dev/video0.

Doug.