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Is your camera a device that has an embedded usb harddrive?
Is it listed in your /etc/fstab file or is it mounted automatically?
Be sure that you read your distro's user guide. It may contain instructions on using a camera, how it is accessed, and if there is a system group, such as "camera" that you might want to be a member of to gain access.
What is your distro? Does it use "udev" to automatically create the device that the camera uses and then mount the camera? A properly written udev rule for your camera might even identify it and cause a requestor to pop up asking whether you want to run the default app for importing pictures from a camera.
Insert the camera port and monitor /var/log/messages: "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages". This will probably identify which device is detected, such as "/dev/sda". In this case it might be mounted at "/dev/sda1". Then look at the device for the camera: "ls /dev/sda1"
brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2006-07-09 01:19 sda1
This is just an example. My system doesn't have /etc/security/pam_console.conf or /etc/security/console.conf or a
console.perms file. You might try "locate console.perms" to see if yours does. The advice you got may be for an older distro or a different distro, or maybe it is correct, but gentoo specific. If there is a console.perms file, read it. It may contain self-explanitory comments. Also, check if you have a "man pam_console" manpage or a "man console.perms" page.
Sorry I haven't been able to give you more advice. I don't use gentoo, and so I can't give you automatic instructions. If your system uses udev, then you might want to go to the Syndicated section of this web site. There was an LXer link pointing to a udev howto. It covered how to create new rules, and one of those rules might have been for a camera. Googling for "udev rules.d camera" may also turn up instructions.
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