Permissions of /dev/raw1394 not as documented

Bug #514880 reported by Dave Gilbert
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Bug Description

In /usr/share/doc/libraw1394-11/README.Debian it is stated that:

  The device file /dev/raw1394 will be created for libraw1394. This library
  is used by applications to access FireWire devices.
  The default access permissions allows only users in the "disk" group.

yet:

dg@major:~$ ls -l /dev/raw1394
crw-rw---- 1 root root 171, 0 2010-01-30 20:53 /dev/raw1394

I'm not sure if really that should be owned by disk (in which case I guess it's a udev problem?)
or if the docs just need changing - I guess it depends who you expect to be using it.

Dave

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f2d10bd9f943a85b486a282e7840a570
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Sat Jan 30 20:54:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: libraw1394-11 2.0.4-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libraw1394
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-999-generic x86_64

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :
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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

hmm, in Quantal I don't have a /dev/raw1394 any more anyway - hmm not sure where it's gone;
there is a /dev/fw0 :

crw------- 1 root root 251, 0 Aug 27 12:16 /dev/fw0

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