Re: how to change permissions on /dev/video0 permanantly

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:44:54 GMT
sutter@ecology.at wrote:

> the permessions for /dev/video0 are
>
> crw------- 1 phil video
>
> but i need at least that users of the group viedo have rw on
> /dev/video0. so as root i do
> chmod go+rw /dev/video0
> so now i am happy. but when i boot the permissions are again
> crw------- 1 phil video
>
> how can i change the permissions permanantly?
>

Edit, as root, the file:

/etc/logindevperm

You should see a line similar to this in it:

:0 0600 /dv/video:/dev/video0:/dev/video1:/dev/video2:/dev/video3

change it to:

:0 0660 /dv/video:/dev/video0:/dev/video1:/dev/video2:/dev/video3


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