Kino poblem

[Doug Pollard]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Doug Pollard wrote:
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>> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
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>>> Is the user you try to access the device / run Kino with member of the
>>> group "disk"?
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>> I don't understand what you are asking fore here?  How do I check 
>> permissions to see as user what permissions I have in kino?
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> As I've written in my first reply: use
> id
> to get the groups listed the current user is member of. Use
> id <username>
> to get the groups for another user. Check whether for the relevant user
> (the one you run Kino with, i. e. very likely the one you're using right
> now) the output of the id command contains the group disk.
> If that's not the case, add him to group disk.
> If he already is member of disk, he should be able to read from and
> write to the rwa1394 device - and I have no idea why Kino complains
> about this being otherwise.
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>> Can you elaborate a little. Also what is proper here on this list?  Top posting or bottom?
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> Please bottom post. And only keep the parts of the original message you
>  make a reference to in your reply. Doing a full quete is worse than
> useless.
>
> Regards
>   mks
>
> I
    Is it safe to run kino as sudo and capture video. I need to work on 
the video and get back to permissions later after some reading. I don't 
understand this thing of working with disks.
I'm not even sure what disk is as it relates to permissions to run raw 1394
                                                                         
   Doug