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Subject:    [gphoto] Alternative way of setting usb user permissions for gphoto
From:       Renchi Raju <renchi () green ! tam ! uiuc ! edu>
Date:       2002-08-25 12:39:31
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Here's an alternative way which i use to setup usb permissions so that i can 
use gphoto2 as a normal user. Hans, maybe you can add this to the gphoto2 
documentation.

Step 1) Add a group called usb (if not already exists)
	Command: "addgroup usb"
Step 2) Add the user, say johndoe, to the group usb (if not already in the 
group usb.
	This is distribution dependent. On debian I can do this as 
"adduser johndoe usb"
On other distributions, you can do this easily by editing /etc/group and 
adding "johndoe" to the line containing usb. For eg:
usb:x:1001:johndoe
Step 3) Note down the groupid of group usb. In the above case its 1001
Step 4) Edit /etc/fstab and add/edit the usb line as follows (Note devgid=1001 
comes from the usb groupid)
usb   /proc/bus/usb   usbdevfs  defaults,devmode=0660,devgid=1001    0      0
Step 5)   Unmount usb and remount it
	Command: "umount usb; mount usb"
Step 6) Check permissions of usb. it should look something like below:
ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001
-rw-rw----    1 root     usb            18 Aug 23 18:51 001
Step 7) If you are logged in as user, logout and login
Step 8) Enjoy gphoto2



regards,
renchi

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Renchi Raju <renchi@green.tam.uiuc.edu>
Digikam (http://digikam.sourceforge.net)
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