Kino problem

[Mumia W.]

On 08/05/2008 11:12 AM, Ulf Rompe wrote:
> On Di, 2008-08-05 at 11:56 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote:
>> Ok was able to run Kino and capture video with the comand gksudo
>> kino.  
>> Does this mean I as a user do not have permissions
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> and if so how to I give myself as a user permission.
> 
> You may just add yourself to the "disk" group:
> 
> sudo adduser $USER disk
> 
> (As a side effect, this enables you to directly access every disk in
> your system. So it would be more elegant to change the permissions
> of /dev/*1394, but I think you have to create a rule in /etc/udev to
> change them permanently. Maybe someone here is more up-to-date with this
> stuff.)
> 
> [x] ulf 
> 

I don't know about adduser. I would do this instead to add myself to the 
"disk" group:

sudo gpasswd -a mumia disk

See "man gpasswd"

However, access to the disks is possibly too risky for a newbie. Doug, 
you can change the permissions on /dev/raw1394 by modifying the script 
/etc/init.d/rc.local . I might put this in there:

chgrp video /dev/raw1394

Since you're already in the "video" group, you should not have any 
problems capturing video.

HTH