On Saturday 23 February 2002 02:56 pm, you wrote:
> On óÂÔ, 2002-02-23 at 22:36, Vincent Meyer, MD wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >     Decided to play with my webcam today for a few.  There seems to be
> > a problem with permissions.
> >
> > [root@localhost dev]# ls -l vid*
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Feb 23 13:19 video ->
> > v4l/video0 lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Feb 23 13:19 video0
> > -> v4l/video0 [root@localhost dev]# cd /v4l
> > bash: cd: /v4l: No such file or directory
> > [root@localhost dev]# cd v4l
> > [root@localhost v4l]# ls -l
> > total 0
> > crw-------    1 meyerv   sys       81,   0 Dec 31  1969 video0
> >
> >
> > This is a problem when using w3cam, as Apache is not running as
> > meyerv - so permission denied.
>
> Edit /etc/security/console.perms to match your needs. Or even simply
> remove it from there and manually set any permissions you like.
>
> Normally it is assumed that only locally logged user would use such
> devices.
>
> -andrej

Hmm.. my thinking was that this should work right out of the box
if w3cam is installed.. but then, if you're installing a webcam server
and a web server, you should know how to do this.

Thanks,

Vinny

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