On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:51:56 -0500, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > These fixes are all limited to removable storage. I was
unaware that
> > there were problems with USB cameras. Do you have a bugzilla I can
> > reference?
> Yes: #170690, #168933, #150985, #165914
If the camera is seen as a removable usb storage device, which it
sounds
like these are, then yes it will. The quick way to tell if it will fix
your problem is look in the /media directory. [...]
There is no need be so indirect. There's an lsusb dump in one of the
innumeorus bugs which John filed. You do not even have to parse it
yourself, David Zeuten pronounced the camera storage-incompatible
in that bug (correctly).
I am not completely convinced that this issue is worth fixing, because of
security implications. However, it would be nice if someone came up with a configuration
for pam and udev which would make console user the owner of
/proc/bus/usb/*/*
-- Pete