Hello Dieter I have heard of undev rules to somehow alter things at boot, so it begins to make some sense to me!
My understanding of the user account situation is as follows: I have enabled all user priveliges for me, username 'david', which included administering the system (perhaps initially set for first user). There are 3 other users, but without administrative rights. Only david is has the password for sudo type operations. This is how i like it to be. Interestingly, i am not specifically associated with any group as such, and neither are the other users. There is a facility to specifically associate users with groups, which includes 'root, users, saned, admin, ...'. I simply created the accounts, and as far as i understand it we are all just unique names at the moment. Maybe this is not the ideal way things should be set up? I could assign myself and the other users to particular groups, if needs be. If possible i would like the scanner to be available to all users (including me!) The info on the undev is: david at david-desktop:~$ ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d total 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 459 2009-05-28 21:51 70-persistent-cd.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392 2009-05-28 20:19 70-persistent-net.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1398 2009-04-09 01:19 README david at david-desktop:~$ Please let me know if you need anything else Kind regards Dave On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 00:29 +0200, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear David, > the behaviour you detected has been expected this way. We need to set up an > apriopriate udev-rule in order to make this work - no big deal. Please let me > know which group the user david belongs to - I guess "user" or "users", I am > not using ubuntu so I need your help in this regard. > Furtermore, please check whether you have the directory /etc/udev and within > this one "rules" or something alike. > I need to know where to put the rules - file. > On opensuse I have /etc/udev/rules.d, within it a list of files entitled > XX-<name>.rules > where XX is a number like "55" or so. > If that exists on your site, please send me a ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d, > because > I have to set up a rule file for you that adjusts the device properties > automatically on boot. > > Thanks in advance, > take care > > > > Dieter > > Am Freitag 05 Juni 2009 23:24:12 schrieben Sie: > > Hello Dieter > > > > Many thanks for the reply. Hopefully (like me) you find the best > > holidays are away from the internet :-) > ****** > >
