| Template: libraw1394/device_node |
| Type: note |
| Description: Check that /dev/raw1394 permissions are appropriate for you. |
| 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 |
