raw1394 permissions

[Karl Larsen]

Alfred JILKA wrote:
> Nils Kassube schrieb:
>> Alfred JILKA wrote:
>>  
>>> got a short question, which hopefully does not require a too long
>>> answer: whenever I connect my DV-camera the device-file is recreated
>>> with permissions 755.
>>> Now the question:  what can be done, so that either the file remains or
>>> is recreated with
>>> 777 permissions ?
>>>     
>>
>> In the file /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules you can setup a 
>> rule for the device in question.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>   
>
> As promised here my solution:
> # KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="disk"
> KERNEL=="raw1394", MODE="777"
>
> As I'm the only one working here, I think this is a safe way to get my 
> videos without the hassle of chmod into my PC.
>
> Thank you all for the great infos, I learned yet another problem to 
> solve myself.
> Alfred
>
    If you look more close it looks like this:

root at karl-desktop:~# ls -al /dev/video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2008-02-09 14:05 /dev/video0
root at karl-desktop:~#

Notice the group called video. I think we all blong to that.

Karl


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