Hi, On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:17:41PM -0500, Phil Wirtz wrote: > Hi , I am setting up an epson es-600c parrallel scanner with > sane-backends-1.0.12, sane-frontends-1.0.11 on RH 7.3 os compiled with > gcc3. I have it working as root and now need to get it working as user, > per FAQ I need to suid something but it does not say what part of sane > needs to be suided .
Well, it says "the application" has to be suid. Applications are the programs you actually run (=frontends) like xsane, kooka, scanimage. > [none@localhost none]$ xscanimage > > Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. [...] GTK doesn't like to be run suid. And GTK is probably right. Usually it's not a good idea to run big programs like the frontends as root. > What do I have to do to get this working now and xsane working in the future Either use a wrapper as mentioned somewhere in the GTK docs or use saned and net like explained here for Mandrake: http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/digitalimage/Scanning-as-Normal-User-on-Wierd-Scanner-Mini-HOWTO.txt Bye, Henning
