Better way to manage /proc/bus/usb/* ownership?

Fryderyk Dziarmagowski freetz at gmx.net
Sun Jul 8 09:44:50 PDT 2007


--- Jason Grant <expires07 at logular.com> wrote:

> On a fresh install of fedora7, gthumb reports an error "cannot claim USB
> device" when my camera is inserted. This is because the files
> under /proc/bus/usb have only root privileges.

isn't /dev/bus/usb/* accessing a prefered way? I don't even have usbfs
mounted and I can access my camera over libusb without smallest
problems (same for scanner).

-- 
Fryderyk Dziarmagowski


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