On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jan Dittberner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have set the ownership/permission of the
>
> /dev/video* devices to
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root rvideo
>
> to enable the group rvideo to access these
> devices.
>
> After a reboot the devices are reset to
>
> crw------- 1 root root
>
> How can I avoid this? Which script is responsible
> for this behaviour?
check in /etc/security/console.perms
There probably is a line like:
<v4l>=/dev/video* /dev/radio*
and somewhere below in the same file:
<console> 0600 <v4l> 0600 root
which means that when 'user' logs in at console, rights and
ownership for /dev/video* are set to:
crw------- user root
you can change this line to:
<console> 0600 <v4l> 0660 root.rvideo
but still any user can use /dev/video* (it only reverts permission to
0660 root.rvideo after user logs out).
I think that the best solution would be to delete this line and manually
set permissions/ownership. This mechanism is provided to prevent
different users from using some devices simultaneously. Usually you have
only one person at the console so this is kind of excessive security.
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