Re: [Motion-user] wiki editing - redhat camera permissions

[Peter S. <pet...@ut...>]

I'm not a lead developer by any means, but your info does look good. 
Btw, I happen to have an AS 3 box around and notice that it has the same 
options, also in /etc/security/console.perms . You hit the nail on the head.

Of course, on my AS4 box (the one that actually has motion and ~ 12 
video feeds) I have it running as root, so it isn't an issue.. Perhaps I 
should change that? :)

P

James McCrea wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm a new contributor, so not really sure how things work.
>I've been finding that i kept losing permissions to use the /dev/video0
>device that my Philips toucan webcam uses.
>This is on a Redhat enterprise 4 box.
>(Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant))
>
>Having prodded and played a bit I found that I could change the default
>permissions for the devices, and have posted my findings on 
>http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#RedHat_keeps_losing_my_permissio
>Is this appropriate, am I allowed/expected to do this? And more
>importantly is what i've said right? ;)
>
>Cheers for a lovely bit of software,
>
>James
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