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On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 18:07, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> I wanted to run mythbackend as a user not root so I followed the
> instructions to the letter. The backend start up fails because
> /dev/video0 is only r/w by root. I change the permissions to "a+rw"
> but I guess /dev/video* is created at boot time. After rebooting the
> permissions were root r/w only again. Any suggestions?
>

If you are running devfs this is created at startup. You can edit
/dev/devfsd.conf to change the permissions it creates it with. man
devfsd.conf. Other than that I wouldn't know.

Cheers,

Scott

--
Scott Beck <sbeck@gossamer-threads.com>
Gossamer Threads

Well, I know that on my RedHat 8 system, the device permissions are all reset
by the PAM module at boot-up. The file '/etc/security/console.perms"
controls the initial permissions for devices, as well as which devices get
their permission/ownership changed to the user currently logged into the
console.

-JAC


On Sunday 18 May 2003 09:07 pm, Vinton Coffman wrote:
> I wanted to run mythbackend as a user not root so I followed the
> instructions to the letter. The backend start up fails because
> /dev/video0 is only r/w by root. I change the permissions to "a+rw"
> but I guess /dev/video* is created at boot time. After rebooting the
> permissions were root r/w only again. Any suggestions?
>
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