gphoto2 & USB access

[Net Llama!]

It might help if you told us what the problem was.  All i see is "it
doesn't work".

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Tom Condon wrote:

>
> Folks,
>
> My SuSE 8.0 installation included gphoto & gphoto2, so they are there.
> The usb ports used for the camera connection (/dev/usb/dc2xx0 according
> to gphoto2), however, were all owned by root and group root.  So, of
> course, my user doesn't happen to have access to them.  I can access
> and download the files as root, but I prefer not to do that.  I changed
> the ports (dc2xx) to be root/users ownership, but still don't have
> access when logged in as a normal user.
>
> Currently my /dev/usb directory looks like this:
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 112 Mar 23 11:50 auer0
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 113 Mar 23 11:50 auer1
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 114 Mar 23 11:50 auer2
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 115 Mar 23 11:50 auer3
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 116 Mar 23 11:50 auer4
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 117 Mar 23 11:50 auer5
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 118 Mar 23 11:50 auer6
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 119 Mar 23 11:50 auer7
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 240 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb0
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 241 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb1
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 242 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb2
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 243 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb3
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 244 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb4
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 245 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb5
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 246 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb6
> crw-rw----    1 root     root     180, 247 Mar 23 11:50 dabusb7
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  80 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx0
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  81 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx1
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  82 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx2
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  83 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx3
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  84 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx4
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  85 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx5
> crw-rw----    1 root     users    180,  86 Mar 23 11:50 dc2xx6
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