On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:29:52 -0700 Richard England <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried limiting this by adding GROUP="scanner" to the UDEV rule, > creating the group "scanner" and adding my account to that group > but it seems that unless I do a "newgrp scanner" to change my > primary group, I can't access it. If you start a new shell (or log out and in again) it will include scanner in its groups. You could set the perms to 0660. > I'd be glad to learn the proper way to limit this further, or the > Gnu-Linux-proper way to use groups (they don't seem to be exactly > as I'm used to on Unix) if anyone wants to enlighten me. There's no difference AFAIK... > The only lingering question in my mind is, "is this as it should > be?". Shouldn't there be something in place to allow the general > user to simply plug in a supported scanner and use it without be > root or modifying the UDEV rules? IIRC the Debian package sets up a scanner group, and UDEV I think, maybe you should raise it with the FC package maintainer (one would hope they hang out here anyway). Martin
