Xsane only as root -

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

> After reading through that it seemed simpler just to live with running 
> su xsane, but I did the following:
>
> [bobg at box10 ~]$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/`lsusb |grep Canon |cut -d: -f1 |tr " 
> " / |cut -d/ -f 2,4`
> crw-rw-r--. 1 root root 189, 1 Jan 16 03:33 /dev/bus/usb/001/002
>
> [bobg at box10 ~]$ ls /dev/bus/usb/001/002 -l
> crw-rw-r--. 1 root root 189, 1 Jan 16 03:33 /dev/bus/usb/001/002
>
>
> [root at box10 bobg]# chmod 776 /dev/bus/usb/001/002
>
> [bobg at box10 ~]$ ls /dev/bus/usb/001/002 -l
> crwxrwxrw-. 1 root root 189, 1 Jan 16 03:33 /dev/bus/usb/001/002
>
> And then:
>
> [bobg at box10 ~]$ xsane
>
> Xsane runs.
>
> Will it survive a system reboot? I dunno, but if not it will fix it for 
> me since I don't often use the scanner.

IIRC, no.
I had to modify udev rules.

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