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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:22:41 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Webcamd v0.1.18 ready for testing [was: v0.1.17]
Message-ID:  <201012150922.41929.hselasky@c2i.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D085320.9000604@missouri.edu>
References:  <201012122245.34561.hselasky@c2i.net> <4D085320.9000604@missouri.edu>

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On Wednesday 15 December 2010 06:33:20 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> webcamd works great on my Dell Inspiron 1525 built in webcam.
> 
> But I have to run programs like pwcview as root to get it to work.  How
> do I get it to work for regular users?

You need to chown /dev/videoX to that user.

--HPS



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