How to give me perms to use the firewire port?

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 21:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> So, while I have a root session going, what do I have to do to make the 
> user 1000, me, be able to use the firewire port?

Kino reports the device it is trying to open. The quick and dirty answer
is to change the group ownership on that device file (/dev/whatever) to
your own group. The module/device has "1394" in the name, I think.

The nicer, tidier, more extensible, and arguably *right* way to do it
would be to set up a firewire users group, put yourself in it, and give
the device that group ownership. You will then need to set that group
ownership on each boot, of course. There is a mechanism for that which I
can't remember off the top of my head, but it's used to do things like
provide access to serial ports to the dialout users group.

Regards, K.

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