Hello. Now we have some parallel port scanners supported by sane and I get several messages with questions how the people can access their scanner as user.
We need a better way to handle these scanners. It really is dangerous to run the frontends as root or with suid=root. So I want to ask all authors of backends that support parallel port scanners to work out a common way (sanei_parallel_*) to talk as user to the scanner. These sanei_parallel_* routines should run on as much systems as possible (not only linux!). Please also add a text to the manpage of the backend how the scanner can be used by user and also point out how dangerous it is with suid=root!!! An other way would be to connect via sane-net/saned to the local machine but as far as I tested that still does not work very well due to a bug in sane-net or saned. Bye Oliver -- Homepage: http://www.rauch-domain.de sane-umax: http://www.rauch-domain.de/sane-umax xsane: http://www.xsane.org E-Mail: mailto:[email protected]
