Template: libraw1394/device_node Type: note Description: Check that /dev/raw1394 permissions are appropriate for you. 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. This restrictive setting was chosen since raw1394 allows almost full access to the FireWire bus and all connected devices are accessible, which may include hard disks. . If you don't intend to connect sensitive devices and e.g. only want to get video streams out of a camera, you can relax the permissions. If you don't have malicious users on your system, you can allow access for all users with this command (executed as the root user): chmod 666 /dev/raw1394