USB Video device permissions need changing before motion can connect

Question

When I restart, or plug in my USB webcam, a new /dev/video file is produced. I always have to chmod 666 to allow motion to get access to the webcam. Once the file permissions are set, it all works.

Is there a way of allowing motion access the webcam without having to manually change video file permissions?

I don't know a lot about Linux so I hope this is a reasonable question.

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Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12
ffmpeg version:
Libraries:	ffmpeg, mysql, postgresql
Server OS:	Ubuntu server 10.10

-- DazzConway - 23 Oct 2010

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