On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:19 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I am attempting to hook a USB scanner to a FC6 box and have the usual problem of only being able to scan (and find the scanner) as root.
How do I go about fixing this?
Well, there's lots and lots of udev rules regarding scanners. The one you probably are most interested in is in /etc/udev.d/50-udev.rules.
Look for the stanza:
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sg[0-9]*", BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{type}=="[36]", \ SYMLINK+="scanner scanner-%k", MODE="0660"
and change the MODE bit to "MODE=0666". That will change the scanner's mode to "rw-rw-rw-" next time it's seen, so unplug it and plug it back in after the change to /etc/udev.d/50-udev.rules.
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