Thank you for not revolting at my tone in my earlier response. I agree we need to improve the kernel interface, and the issue has come up in the linux1394-devel mailing list. However, I do not forsee a solution coming in the near-to-mid-term. In the meantime, I was hoping to give users something more comforting than running as root or adding themself to the disk group. raw1394 group membership is a little more isolated security risk than running as root or belonging to disk. Also, it is a little more obvious. Hopefully, the fact that the user account created at install is not already a member of such group is a reminder of some of the risk.
-- use /dev/video1394, not /dev/raw1394 https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/6290 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
