Re: group video?

[Tom Lear <tom@trap.mtview.ca.us>]

On 15 Aug 1999, Ruud de Rooij wrote:

> Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> writes:
> 
> > Do we want/need a group 'video' to hold all the video4linux devices?  In the
> > same way that groups like audio, cdrom, dialout, etc are used to control 
> > permissions to a specific group of users, I'm thinking that making the video
> > devices root/video/0660 would make things like xawtv easier to run.
> > 
> > As the makedev maintainer, I'll be happy to update makedev if there is 
> > agreement.  
> 
> This sounds like a good idea.  Although having the video4linux devices
> in the audio group is acceptable to me too.  The current
> root/root/0660 isn't exactly useful, though.

I think a group for all local devices (video, audio, cdrom, maybe floppy)
would be easier.  i.e. a group for anything that should be usable just
because you're on the console (or rather at the keyboard).
							- Tom