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Bug 125788 - USB Camera device belongs to "plugdev" group?
Summary: USB Camera device belongs to "plugdev" group?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Alastair Tse (RETIRED)
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: 143425 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-03-10 21:58 UTC by Roger
Modified: 2006-08-10 01:03 UTC (History)
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Description Roger 2006-03-10 21:58:56 UTC 
sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r1

Plugging in a USB camera device creates a device with a group named "plugdev".

#ls -alh /proc/bus/usb/003/
-rw-rw----  1 root plugdev 57 Mar 10 21:50 010

All other devices within /proc/bus/usb are created with root.usb ownerships except this usb camera (usable via gphoto2/gtkam).  I'm guessing this issue originates via sys-apps/hotplug?
Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-04-17 08:46:32 UTC 
No, hotplug does not modify this.  I bet it's a gphoto script somewhere.
Comment 2 Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-31 09:47:59 UTC 
It is libgphoto and deals with the automounting of devices.
Comment 3 Roger 2006-05-31 14:57:35 UTC 
One thing to note, I'm having to modify the udev script to make sure all my usb devices are "group" readable.  

If root is only allowed to use the devices, why even plug in the device to begin with? :-)
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-10 01:03:33 UTC 
*** Bug 143425 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***