Re: Re: About at the end of my tether with my webcam

Darryl LeCount wrote:
Hi,

it looks like your /dev/video0 is owned by root. Could you give us the
result of ls -l /dev/video0 ?

It that case you may use chown to grab the /etc/video0 device

G.

Hi Gerard,

The /dev/video0 is indeed owned by root, but this is meant to be.
Allowing a chmod 777 (which does the same thing as chowning to the
current user) is a security risk and chowning the /dev/video0 (which
didn't do anything) to me only means that no other users on this system
could access it.

D

My /dev/video0 has the following permissions:

crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 0 2007-06-27 17:51 /dev/video0

Adding myself to the video group and logging off and on again gives me
access to /dev/video0.

Doug.


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