Debconf message should mention sudo, not root
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libraw1394 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Here's a debconf message from libraw1394 that was mailed to me:
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The device file /dev/raw1394 will be created for libraw1394. This library
is used by applications to access FireWire devices.
The default access permissions allows only users in the "disk" group.
This restrictive setting was chosen since raw1394 allows almost full
access to the FireWire bus and all connected devices are accessible, which
may include hard disks.
If you don't intend to connect sensitive devices and e.g. only want to get
video streams out of a camera, you can relax the permissions. If you
don't have malicious users on your system, you can allow access for all
users with this command (executed as the root user):
chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
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As Ubuntu uses sudo, the end of this should say:
...
don't have malicious users on your system, you can allow access for all
users with this command:
sudo chmod 666 /dev/raw1394
Related branches
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| assignee: | nobody → mkoehle1 |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Michael W. Koehler (mkoehle1) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| assignee: | mkoehle1 → nobody |
| status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
| Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote | #2 |
| Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
| Michael W. Koehler (mkoehle1) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| assignee: | nobody → ubuntu-main-sponsors |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| assignee: | ubuntu-main-sponsors → nobody |
| Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #7 |
| Changed in libraw1394: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
It turns out that the debconf message was just echoing the contents of README.Debian. I have attached a patch (following the preset .dpatch format) to correct this problem in libraw1394-8, enjoy.