Re: gphoto2 problem: usb access for non root users

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Jesse Barnes (jbarnes virtuousgeek org) said: 
> Hm, I haven't been so lucky.  When I plugin my camera, I get a popup 
> under KDE asking me if I want to open a window.  If I select 'yes' the 
> window comes up but times out saying it couldn't claim the usb device, 
> presumably because both /proc/bus/usb and /dev/bus/usb are owned 
> completely by root.  My /usr/libexec/gphoto-udev-thunk-set-my-perms 
> script has the right lines to set the perms, but maybe HAL isn't 
> setting the right env. vars for it when it's called?

What hal, udev, and libusb do you have?

Bill