usbautocam only as root?

[Dalibor Malek]

Dalibor Malek wrote:

> Andy Green wrote:
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>>On Monday 02 August 2004 18:45, Dalibor Malek wrote:
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>>Hi -
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>>  
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>>>we talked a while ago about your usbautocam Script (which is absolutely
>>>great).
>>>I have one question to this script.
>>>Is it really only possible to run that script as root?
>>>I made a user with standard rights and run the script but when I try to
>>>add a stick I get a failure message.
>>>And then if I plug the stick in or out nothing happens.
>>>When I do this as root its working fine.
>>>Is it possible to run the script as normal user or if not is it possible
>>>to auto login as root?
>>>    
>>>
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>>The usbautocam script sets up automount and hotplug and so on in /etc, starts 
>>and stops the automount script and suchlike.  For these actions it needs to 
>>have root powers.
>>
>>To be clear though, the usbautocam script is only run once to set up the 
>>device.  After that you should be able to plug the device in while logged in 
>>as a normal user without needing to touch usbautocam again.
>>
>>If that's not working, email me offlist with the errors and we'll see what we 
>>can see.
>>
>>  
>>
>>>P.S. I'm running FC2 with kernel-2.6.7-1.501.i586, on a VIA Eden Box.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Those little VIA boards are very nice.  They should be a lot cheaper though.
>>
>>- -Andy
>>
>>- -- 
>>Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players
>>http://warmcat.com/usbautocam
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> Hi Andy,
>
> I'm getting this on the logs by a plugout and plugin.
>
> Aug  2 20:39:57 dmgsurface sshd(pam_unix)[4595]: session opened for 
> user root by (uid=0)
> Aug  2 20:45:26 dmgsurface udev[4982]: removing device node '/udev/sg0'
> Aug  2 20:45:26 dmgsurface kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
> Aug  2 20:45:27 dmgsurface udev[5000]: removing device node '/udev/sda1'
> Aug  2 20:45:27 dmgsurface udev[5011]: removing device node '/udev/sda'
> Aug  2 20:45:33 dmgsurface kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device 
> using address 3
> Aug  2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
> Storage devices
> Aug  2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel:   Vendor: LEXAR     Model: 
> JUMPDRIVE         Rev: 1.01
> Aug  2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel:   Type:   
> Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Aug  2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: SCSI device sdb: 251904 512-byte 
> hdwr sectors (129 MB)
> Aug  2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
> Aug  2 20:45:34 dmgsurface kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write 
> through
> Aug  2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel:  sdb: sdb1
> Aug  2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at 
> scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Aug  2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, 
> channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
> Aug  2 20:45:35 dmgsurface kernel: updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg 
> mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device
> Aug  2 20:45:36 dmgsurface scsi.agent[5103]: disk at 
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0
> Aug  2 20:45:37 dmgsurface su(pam_unix)[5182]: session opened for user 
> root by (uid=0)
> Aug  2 20:45:38 dmgsurface udev[5236]: creating device node '/udev/sdb'
> Aug  2 20:45:38 dmgsurface udev[5237]: creating device node '/udev/sdb1'
> Aug  2 20:45:39 dmgsurface udev[5239]: creating device node '/udev/sg0'
> Aug  2 20:45:39 dmgsurface su(pam_unix)[5182]: session closed for user 
> root
>
> The problems is my scripts is not getting started, when I do this as 
> root my script is getting started. I already tried to change the 
> rights and the owner of the script and of the directories but nothing 
> worked.
> I tried to make a new user with root rights but, it didn’t work.
> It would solve all my problems if I could auto login with root but 
> this isn’t working either.
>
> What else could I do?
>
> Thank You. 

P.S. As root I never com to sdb1 I always stay at sda1.

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