Scanner permission

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Feb 28 23:41:01 UTC 2007


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:16:16 -0600
> Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, I don't have a /dev/scanner or /dev/usb/scanner device as
>> listed in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms; this scanner doesn't
>> seem to do whatever it needs to do to create one.
> 
> Hmm... I lied.  I don't have /dev/scanner (which is what I was looking for), but
> I do have /dev/scanner-usbdev5.5.  I shall now
> edit /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms and see if that solves the
> problem.
> 
That should already be covered. It uses /dev/scanner* - unless udev
is not calling pam-console. What does ls -l /dev/scanner-usbdev5.5 show?

Mikkel
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