Firewire is not allowed for normal users, it doesnt gives an udev rule for that.

[Eduard Gotwig]

Binary package hint: udev

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

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

I wrote this little script.

It specifies the udev rule which was left out by Ubuntu's udev maintainers, creates the group firewire, set the rights, and restarts udev:

#!/bin/bash

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

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

fix included

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

new fix:

just run:

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

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

EDIT:

just run:

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

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

We don't allow non-root users to access raw firewire devices since this opens root access to the system through known flaws in the firewire stack.

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

Why non-root´s is it not allowed to use firewire devices? Maybe we can add the group firewire? And all users that in firewire, is it allowed to use firewire devices. I find it insecure, that you have to, as an example, open kino as root, to use firewire.