Permissions to access USB camera under debian

Permissions to access USB camera under debian

Micha Feigin michf at post.tau.ac.il
Tue Jul 2 20:09:20 IDT 2013


Hi All,

I'm trying to connect a camera (Mesa Imaging Swissranger specifically) 
to a Debian unstable box. I'm getting an error that the user does not 
have permissions to open the USB device (needs read/write access). 
Couldn't find any relevant group to add my user to to solve the problem. 
Any idea as to how to grant access?

I've manged to get some information when running as sudo although it 
still was a bit problematic, and I'd rather explore the issue as a 
regular user and not root.

Thanks



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