On Sat 31 Jul 2021 at 10:20:43 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-07-30 18:30, Brian wrote: > <...> > > https://wiki.debian.org/SaneOverNetwork#escl > looking at those informative pages I think /dev/sg2 is the scanner > should that not be in group scanner ? > > root@pumpkin:/# ls -l /dev |grep cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 30 17:36 cdrom -> sr0 > crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 2 Jul 30 17:36 sg2 > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 30 17:36 sr0
I don't see why it should be. I too have crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 2 Jul 30 17:36 sg1 on bullseye. Note the +. Its an ACL. systemd, and libpam-systemd have taken care of the correct permissions on the scanner device file. Try getfacl /dev/sg2 (Did you ever say in this thread what the printer/scanner is?) -- Brian.