depends on your distro. more recent ones seem to have switched to using hal and .fdi files to add ACLs for the logged in user, and dont use a group anymore.
allan On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe at eppesuigoccas.homedns.org> wrote: > Hi all, > I am using sane on hp multifunction device, i.e., HP Photosmart C4180 > All-In-One. I currently use this device for printing, while I am > starting using it for scanning. Every time I plug its cable, udev load > the driver and set authorisations for device /dev/bus/usb/$HUB/$DEVICE. > Those auths are such that root may do anything, the "lp" group may read > and write, others might read. > > I cannot access the device via sane, since I am not a member of lp. My > Debian box include a group called "scanner" and udev assign this group > to /dev/bus/usb/$HUB/$DEVICE for my other scanners (EPSON and Fujitsu). > > I would like to know how other people solve this problem. Are you using > ACLs? May you setup ACLs directly from udev? Do you create a different > group, like lpsane, and add all users of "lp" and "sane" to this group? > > Thanks, > Giuseppe > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
