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Rights to write file (recordings or stills) #2652

Open speeskeek opened 1 year ago

speeskeek commented 1 year ago

hello.

I upgraded to the pyton3 version a while ago. working fine, running stable. but - recording (using motion detection) is not working since motioneye cant write.

probably a simple permission thing, but dont know what user/rights to give the folder.

[1:ml1:Terras] [ERR] [ALL] myfopen: Error opening file /media/usb-disk2/CCTV/Terras/2022-11-25/14-25-45.jpg with mode w: Permission denied

[1:ml1:Terras] [ERR] [ALL] put_picture: Can't write picture to file /media/usb-disk2/CCTV/Terras/2022-11-25/14-25-45.jpg - check access rights to target directory

Thread is going to finish due to this fatal error: Permission denied

[1:ml1:Terras] [ERR] [EVT] event_image_snapshot: Could not create symbolic link [2022-11-25/14-25-45.jpg]: Permission denied

zagrim commented 1 year ago

You need to grant write access to the user MotionEye is running (which I think the default way of setting up is user "motion" which is member of group "motion"). The following commands should do the trick, I suppose:

sudo chgrp -R motion /media/usb-disk2/CCTV
sudo chmod -R g+w /media/usb-disk2/CCTV

That transfers group-level ownership of the CCTV-directory (and anything under it) to group "motion".