On Saturday 23 February 2002 03:51 pm, you wrote: > 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?
Would it make sense that if w3cam or some other webcam type server application is installed, instead of permissions of 600 maybe 666? and if no video server is loaded, then it stays 600? It WOULD be nice if permissions were taken care of. V.
