[gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Michael Sullivan]

My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb
digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group.
There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which allowed
the michael user to offload pictures, but it's gone now.  How can I make
it where I don't have to su to root just to offload pictures?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi Michael,


> My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb
> digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group.
> There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which
> allowed the michael user to offload pictures, but it's gone now.  How
> can I make it where I don't have to su to root just to offload
> pictures?

the same happens here since I did an emerge --update world

Before, normal users have been allowed to get pics via gphoto2 on the 
command line or even via the KDE protocol camera:/.

Since the update, only root can get the images. I'm sure it's a 
permission problem, but I don't know where to look first.


Best regards


ce

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Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Gerhard Hoogterp]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:28, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> > My personal account (michael) cannot offload pictures from my usb
> > digital camera - only root can do it.  michael is in the usb group.
> > There used to be a file called /etc/security/console.perms which
> > allowed the michael user to offload pictures, but it's gone now.  How
> > can I make it where I don't have to su to root just to offload
> > pictures?
>
> the same happens here since I did an emerge --update world
>
> Before, normal users have been allowed to get pics via gphoto2 on the
> command line or even via the KDE protocol camera:/.
>
> Since the update, only root can get the images. I'm sure it's a
> permission problem, but I don't know where to look first.

I had something alike and found that the hotplug script was looking 
for /var/run/console/console.lock to see who owned the console (and to use 
this info to chown the usbfile) 

You can easily check if you have the same problem: disconnect the camera, 
become root on the commandline and use 

	cat loginname > /var/run/console/console.lock

(so if you're logged in as michael use 
	cat michael > /var/run/console/console.lock
)

Plug in the camera and try to download the photo's. If it now works, you have 
the same problem which I had (and which has to do I think with pam_console 
which is a flag for emerging pam)

Anyhow, as I got bored to create the lockfile every time I just "fixed" 
the /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to use my name whenever it couldn't find a lock 
file.. Somewhat ugly, but oh well..

Hope this helps..
	Gerhard

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Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Glenn Enright]

On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> I had something alike and found that the hotplug script was looking
> for /var/run/console/console.lock to see who owned the console (and to use
> this info to chown the usbfile)
>
> You can easily check if you have the same problem: disconnect the camera,
> become root on the commandline and use
>
> 	cat loginname > /var/run/console/console.lock
>
> (so if you're logged in as michael use
> 	cat michael > /var/run/console/console.lock
> )
>
> Plug in the camera and try to download the photo's. If it now works, you
> have the same problem which I had (and which has to do I think with
> pam_console which is a flag for emerging pam)
>
> Anyhow, as I got bored to create the lockfile every time I just "fixed"
> the /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to use my name whenever it couldn't find a lock
> file.. Somewhat ugly, but oh well..
>
> Hope this helps..
> 	Gerhard
>
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This link may be helpful to those still looking at this...
http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html

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Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Glenn Enright]

On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after 
disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330)  it doesnt work 
anymore. Neither as root or as user. 
It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device the device number gets 
incremented by one for some reason?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Glenn Enright]

On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But after
> disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330)  it doesnt work
> anymore. Neither as root or as user.
> It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device the device number gets
> incremented by one for some reason?

Ok looks like I can but have to update the device in the software Im using 
bcause it doesnt detect the usb port change (digikam broken?)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Regular user can't offload usb camera`

[Gerhard Hoogterp]

On Friday 30 December 2005 06:12, Glenn Enright wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 16:09, Glenn Enright wrote:
> > On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
> > Interesting I can get it to work the first time it is connected. But
> > after disconnetcting or turning off the camera (a Kodak cx7330)  it
> > doesnt work anymore. Neither as root or as user.
> > It looks liek every time I reconnect a usb device the device number gets
> > incremented by one for some reason?
>
> Ok looks like I can but have to update the device in the software Im using
> bcause it doesnt detect the usb port change (digikam broken?)

Hmm.. I use digikam also and never had the problem that it can't find the 
right usb device.  Only that it was owned by root. I do remember it was 
incrementing the number too. Anyhow, can't help you there. Sorry..

Gerhard

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