For convenience, here is my version of the
/etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam file. You must make this executable
by all, and must edit the USER
variable to your username
rather than mine. It is basically just the
gphoto2/packaging/linux-hotplug/usbcam.user file from the
gphoto2 source code distribution.
#!/bin/bash # $Id: usbcam.user,v 1.1 2002/03/22 23:48:59 hun Exp $ # # /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam # # Sets up newly plugged in USB camera so that just one certain user #USER=root USER=ben # can access it from user space. (Replace root by the user you want # to have access to the cameras.) # # Note that for this script to work, you'll need all of the following: # a) a line in the file /etc/hotplug/usermap that corresponds to the # camera you are using. You can get the correct lines for all cameras # supported by gphoto2 by running "gphoto2 --print-usb-usermap". # b) run your camera software as the user given above # c) a Linux kernel supporting hotplug and usbdevfs # d) the hotplug package (http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/) # # In the usermap file, the first field "usb module" should be named # "usbcam" like this script. # if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ] then chmod a-rwx "${DEVICE}" chown "${USER}" "${DEVICE}" chmod u+rw "${DEVICE}" fi