non-root can't access dv device

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Mon Mar 20 12:00:24 GMT 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 09:49 +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > 
> > So the issue is how should Ubuntu be setup so that a normal user can
> > safely do dv capture? Is dv1394 which Martijn mentions part of the
> > solution?
> > 
> The dv1394 device, and video1394, are set up to allow users in the video
> group to read and write to them.

I'm sure you're right that it's meant to work like that, but i _am_ a
member of video.

Duncan :-(
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