Hi, please reply to the list, not to me.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:48:17AM +0100, Dani Escudero wrote: > I think the problem are the perms of the /dev/usb/scanner0 file. I > suppose there are not ready for a normal user > If you use red hat go to the file /etc/security/console.perms > > there ther's a line called scanner. You will see 600 there. Change it to > 666. That may be correct for a USB scanner. However, he is using a parallel port scanner. If the backend uses direct access to the port, it needs to be root. That's why the saned approach is neccesary. Bye, Henning
