USB scanner permission
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Feb 20 14:50:27 UTC 2008
John Thompson wrote:
> After one of the latest rounds of updates of FC8 I find I can no longer
> use xsane as a normal user: it shows the "Looking for devices" pop-up
> but never finds my USB scanner. If I run xsane as "root" it works fine,
> so apparently this is a permission problem.
>
> How do I determine which device file in /dev is being used for the
> scanner? This used to be simple before the days of udev...
>
This should be handled by a combination of
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules and
/etc/security/console.perms.d//etc/security/console.perms.d
I can not really test it here, as I am using a network scanner, and
that is working.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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