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ZoneMinder is using the not recommended MySQL PASSWORD() function to scramble the passwords with a custom encryption by MySql and store them in the zm.Users.Password field instead of using standard SHA1 function. This prevents the usage of the Apache2 mod_authn_dbd module's or any other method to us...

Added Ubuntu Bug report 806117 to update the Zoneminder package to get this fixed.

Fixed my issue also on Ubuntu 11.04 with Zoneminder 1.24.2.

I posted a bug report about this package: Zoneminder 1.24.2-8ubuntu1 package - bug 806101

(Can't post URL to bug report because stupid forum thinks it's spam link.)

Thank you for the better suggestion, your solution solves the permissions problem for all /dev/video* devices, not just /dev/video0. (But you got your syntax reversed, it's add "user" to "group".) Add the user running the Apache Web service to Video group to access /dev/video* re...

Tried ZoneMinder today for the first time, wouldn't work, tried a lot of things trying to make it work. Found this error in /var/log/syslog then issued the fix command below. I think there's an error in zmfix trying to chmod to "20666" instead of "2666". Jul 3 02:08:26 XBMCLive z...