[mythtv-users] how to change permissions on /dev/video0 permanantly

Paul Bender pbender at qualcomm.com
Fri Mar 25 14:50:31 UTC 2005


What Linux distribution and Linux distribution version are you using? 
How you make the /dev permission permanent depends on how the /dev file 
system is created, and here are at least a few ways that the /dev file 
system is created.

philipp sutter wrote:
> on my system the user mythtv has no access to /dev/video0 
> because the permessions for /dev/video0 are:
> 
> $ crw-------  1 phil video 
> 
> so i do as root:
> $ chmod go+rw /dev/video0
> 
> after that i am happy. but when i boot, the permissions are again
> 
> $ crw-------  1 phil video 
> 
> does anybody know, how i can change the permissions permanantly?
> 
> thank you for any hint in advance!


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