Re: ownership of /dev/raw1394

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:43:31PM -0800, Peter Crawford wrote:
> 
> Folk,
> 
> j:/home/pc# ls -dl /dev/raw*
> crw-rw---- 1 root disk 171, 0 2009-01-26 10:21 /dev/raw1394
> 
> Changing the group from "disk" to "video" allows a user of 
> coriander, access to the camera.  Yet this is unsatisfactory because 
> changing an ownership after each reboot is inconvenient and 
> because IEEE 1394 should support various devices including 
> disk drives and cameras.
> 
> Is a more intelligent solution available currently?

1) write your own udev rule
2) have a script in /etc/init.d do the chown on bootup

good luck with this

joel
 
> Thanks,          ... p. crawford
-- 
Joel Roth