firewire devices permissions and ownership

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:05:34 Dan Horák wrote:
> Dan Horák píše v Ne 04. 01. 2009 v 14:11 +0100:
> > After plugging in a firewire MiniDV camera a new device (/dev/fw1) is
> > correctly created. But they (/dev/fw*) have 0660 as the permission and
> > root:root as owner, so it is impossible to control the camera or grab
> > the videos as a regular user (eg. from Kino). What should be responsible
> > for allowing the user access for firewire devices?
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441073

The latest libraw1394 and libiec61883 in updates-testing finally remedy this.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at redhat.com