Comment 6 for bug 205767

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Chris Samuel (chris-csamuel) wrote : Re: [Hardy Heron Beta] can't import photos from Canon A540

I have a similar problem with a Nikon D-100 under the current Hardy release of KUbuntu using either Digikam or the command line program gphoto2.

It appears that the correct permissions are not being set on the USB device, the remain in the group root rather than plugdev.

lsusb says:

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 006 Device 005: ID 04b0:0402 Nikon Corp. DSC D100 (ptp)
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

Permissions on the device are:

# ls -l /dev/bus/usb/006/005
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 644 2008-04-13 13:50 /dev/bus/usb/006/005

If I manual set the group to plugdev then everything is happy again - until next time I plug it in.. :-(