Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Runs as root but not as user

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson tiscali co uk>]

On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 5:59 pm, Iason Antipariotis wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 11:42 am, Stefan Bruens wrote:
> >>Am Sonntag, 14. September 2003 11:33 schrieb Kilian Krause:
> >>>Ehrm, you're mocking me, right? ALL of those above device
> >>>symlinks miss the write flag. How about you try and chmod 660
> >>> all of them? They should read:
> >>>lrw-rw---- ...
> >>>and
> >>>crw-rw---- ..
> >>
> >>$ man chmod
> >>...
> >>chmod  never  changes the permissions of symbolic links; the
> >> chmod system call cannot change their permis­sions.  This is not
> >> a problem since the permissions of symbolic links are never
> >> used.
> >
> > Fine - so as long as I've ensured that what they point to have rw
> > permissions I should be ok.  Except that I'm not.  Thanks for the
> > info, though.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Are you a member of the group video or sys ?

Yes, to both.

> If you chown anne:users (or whatever group you belong to) the
> devices, are you  still not able to open the video device?
>
No, I'm definitely in the video group and the audio group, and I've 
made sure that they all show video or audio as the group, but I still 
can't open the device.

As a matter of interest - is there anyone here who actually uses 
GnomeMeeting with Mandrake 9.1?  Is it possible that there is a 
problem in the version shipped?

Anne
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