Never mind, it worked after adding the following entry into ueventd.rc. #camera /dev/video* 0660 system camera On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:51 PM, karthik poduval <karthik.poduval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was working with a USB camera. As soon as I plug it into the host, > it probes and video device node gets created with the following > permission. > # ll /dev/video0 > crw------- root root 81, 0 2015-07-13 20:39 video0 > > > However it grants permissions to only a root user. I need to be able > to access this device node from a daemon (running in a non root user > account). > > I can ofcourse chmod the devnode, but was wondering if there is a way > this can be done from the kernel itself ? Is there some place in the > uvc code which sets the created the devnode file permissions ? > > -- > Regards, > Karthik Poduval -- Regards, Karthik Poduval -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
