How to let normal user to use webcam ?

[Bill Davidsen]

Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After I installed the webcam. Only root can use the Webcam.
> How to make the normal user to use it ?
> 
The usual way is to change the group of the camera (chgrp), change the 
group access on the device (chmod g+rw), and add the user to the camera 
group (vigr). Wasn't that easy?


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