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

[Iason Antipariotis <iasant antipariotis gr>]

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 ?
If you chown anne:users (or whatever group you belong to) the devices, 
are you  still not able to open the video device?


Regards,
Iason