Comment 14 for bug 50923

Jérôme, This sounds like a "just in case it works" suggestion. Unless ekiga and the plugins have been rewritten to work in an entirely new way (unlikely for a minor bump in the version number) I can't see how anything could have changed.

Anyway, always willing to do as I am told, I tried. Of course the latest versions simple try to open /dev/raw1394 just like before and fail. Also like before, chmod o+rw /dev/raw1394 makes it all work.

If there is a bug at all, it is in whatever subsystem sets up permissions and ownership in /dev and/or the subsystem that decides what group a user should belong to. I can't see how ekiga or its plugins can get round that issue.

There may be a problem in ekiga in that a diagnostic or hint that granting access to /dev/raw1394 might be required would help ordinary users.