On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 08:43:49AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > I glanced at http://wiki.debian.org/Scanner . > > root@dalton:/etc# adduser peter scanner > Adding user `peter' to group `scanner' ... > Adding user peter to group scanner > Done. > > With no additional fuss, Xsane and the quiteinsane pluggin > in gimp both find the scanner.
Ah ha! > > Strikes me as odd that most user applications and resources > are available painlessly while a few need root to put the > user in a group. More odd that scanner membership wasn't > needed in Squeeze or I was removed from the scanner group > in the grade from Squeeze to Wheezy. Is a previously > ignored policy being enforced in Wheezy? udev is supposed to handle these things now. I suspect older SCSI scanners were left behind in the migration from HAL because there are so few of us using them any more. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130613161429.ga6...@daikon.vrg.org
