acess on firewire devices for non-root users is not allowed!

[Eduard Gotwig]

Binary package hint: udev

insted of using my dv camera from sony in kino over the firewire stack, i became the message firewire module not loaded.

The problem was that it doesnt gave an udev-rule for that, and normal users arent allowed to use firewire.

I wrote this little script.

"It specifies the udev rule, creates the group firewire, set the rights, and restarts udev:

"which was left out by Ubuntu's udev maintainers" ‹ubuntu wiki

#!/bin/bash

sudo addgroup firewire &&
echo 'KERNEL=="raw1394", GROUP="firewire", MODE="0664"' |
sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/50-raw1394.rules
sudo restart udev

but with that patch the user has full acess over the firewire device (which has dma!), so a wrapper would be bether to solve this big problem, but i dont know much enough about the firewire stack, and I do not find enough information with google to write a wrapper.