Hello Jim,

> every time I reboot my /dev/video0 gets set back to
> only root rw "crw-------".
> 
> and each time I go back in and do a "chmod 666 /dev/video0" and when I 
> ls it it says "crw-rw-rw-" as I would expect.
> 
> any idea what is happening.

Do you run RedHat?

"man 5 console.perms" should explain what is happening:

--------------------------------------------------------------
 > /etc/security/console.perms  determines  the   permissions
 > that  will be given to priviledged users of the console at
 > login time, and the permissions to which  to  revert  when
 > the  users log out.  It is read by the pam_console module.
--------------------------------------------------------------

So go ahead and edit /etc/security/console.perms. It's not a bug, it's a 
(security) feature. 8-)

CU
Michael.




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