Permissions accessing USB Digital Camera
 

I use (better said, I want to use) Digikam to download pictures from a Canon Digital Camera via USB.

It works great with root. For any other user (luser), digikam can't connect with the camera. So it has to be a problem with USB devices access rights.

Help?

Ed

chmod 777 /dev/xxx
chmod 666 /dev/xxx - slightly danderous for security reasons

Well, often it is better to become a member of a group than chmodding.

Where in /dev is your cam?

Check dmesg when connecting to it

Then to a:

ls -l /dev/xxx

And post it here

Setting USB permissions in Gphoto2

Edit: Slackware does not include PAM so I make a camera group and add myself to it. Then I use the usbcam.group script per the above directions.

Create a group called 'camera' and add your user to it.
Then do the following:
and make the owner of usbcam.usermap your user.
and make usbcam executable.
DigiKam should now work for your user.

MagicMan

ups - wrong quote. :)

tnx man! you gave a link to a great guide.
there are practically 3 or 4 commands for all to work. really nice.


tnx again.

HF