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Today's Topics:
1. Re: file permissions of video files written by motion
(Dave Howorth)
2. Re: file permissions of video files written by motion
(Spencer Chun)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:45:54 +0000
From: Dave Howorth <d...@howorth.org.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] file permissions of video files written by
motion
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:09:37 -0800
Spencer Chun <spencerlh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have motion working on various Pi units. The only question is how
> to set the file permissions on the video files.
>
> http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
> [image: ScreenHunter 140.jpg]
> Currently it writes the files as
> Owner (motion) Read Write
> Group Read
> Other Read
>
> I would like the file to be saved as 777 (all read/write).
>
> I have a ftp/sftp app that I can ftp into the raspberrypi using pi as
> a login. I am able to see and play the files but can't delete them
> using this app because they belong to "motion" and are rw r r.
>
> To remove these files, I use putty, login in as pi, su root then
> delete the files.
In addition to the other two ways of fixing this:
(1) running motion under the pi user, or
(2) changing the default file permissions using umask (the pi runs
linux)
you could also (3) simply ftp in and/or login to the pi as user motion,
then you would already be the ownner of the files. That's what I do.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:26:52 -0800
From: Spencer Chun <spencerlh...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] file permissions of video files written by
motion
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thank you for reading my post.
I installed motion per the directions which creates a user "motion" and
starts it up at boot.
I cannot ssh as "motion" or ftp as "motion" because for reasons unknown to
me, it does not support ssh or ftp
I can rlogin as pi, chmod the files under root and then delete them, but
this is the step I am trying to eliminate.
To me the directions below are too vague for me (maybe not to you). After
copying the directories over, how do I start motion as daemon under user pi?
thanks if you know the answer.
http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideInstallation
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Dave Howorth <d...@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:09:37 -0800
> Spencer Chun <spencerlh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have motion working on various Pi units. The only question is how
> > to set the file permissions on the video files.
> >
> > http://lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
> > [image: ScreenHunter 140.jpg]
> > Currently it writes the files as
> > Owner (motion) Read Write
> > Group Read
> > Other Read
> >
> > I would like the file to be saved as 777 (all read/write).
> >
> > I have a ftp/sftp app that I can ftp into the raspberrypi using pi as
> > a login. I am able to see and play the files but can't delete them
> > using this app because they belong to "motion" and are rw r r.
> >
> > To remove these files, I use putty, login in as pi, su root then
> > delete the files.
>
> In addition to the other two ways of fixing this:
> (1) running motion under the pi user, or
> (2) changing the default file permissions using umask (the pi runs
> linux)
>
> you could also (3) simply ftp in and/or login to the pi as user motion,
> then you would already be the ownner of the files. That's what I do.
>
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