On Четверг 06 декабря 2012 11:06:08 Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Evgeny, > > >> By the way, does anyone know the purpose of the SANE module in > >> NixOS? I guess it's supposed to make some udev rules available to > >> the system, but that does that actually work? I noticed, for > >> example, that the udev rules refer to a group name which won't even > >> exist on NixOS. > > > > Now it exists :) Users should be in scanner group to access scanners. > > I have disabled the SANE module on my NixOS host entirely, and my > scanner (Canon LIDE) works just fine without it. So I wonder what this > module is needed for? Are there any scanners that actually require those > udev definitions?
When you plugin a new usb device, is it available to all upriveleged users? If so, you don't need any udev rules. Last time I checked those rules actually made sure users in "scanner" group could access the device. -- Evgeny _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
