On ���, 2002-02-24 at 00:37, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > On Saturday 23 February 2002 02:56 pm, you wrote: > > On ���, 2002-02-23 at 22:36, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Decided to play with my webcam today for a few. There seems to be > > > a problem with permissions. > > > > > > [root@localhost dev]# ls -l vid* > > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Feb 23 13:19 video -> > > > v4l/video0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Feb 23 13:19 video0 > > > -> v4l/video0 [root@localhost dev]# cd /v4l > > > bash: cd: /v4l: No such file or directory > > > [root@localhost dev]# cd v4l > > > [root@localhost v4l]# ls -l > > > total 0 > > > crw------- 1 meyerv sys 81, 0 Dec 31 1969 video0 > > > > > > > > > This is a problem when using w3cam, as Apache is not running as > > > meyerv - so permission denied. > > > > Edit /etc/security/console.perms to match your needs. Or even simply > > remove it from there and manually set any permissions you like. > > > > Normally it is assumed that only locally logged user would use such > > devices. > > > > -andrej > > Hmm.. my thinking was that this should work right out of the box > if w3cam is installed.. but then, if you're installing a webcam server > and a web server, you should know how to do this. >
If the problem is group/other permissions it could be set by default. What permissions should it have then?
