You're right, I tried adding myself to the group 'scanner' but it didn't help.
$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/002/006 crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 133 Mar 19 11:29 /dev/bus/usb/002/006 $ groups brians adm cdrom sudo dip plugdev scanner lpadmin sambashare I think Ubuntu uses udev. > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:55:56 -0400 > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE 700F > From: xiphmont at gmail.com > To: stef.dev at free.fr > CC: bspisak at hotmail.com; sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > > README.linux (in top source directory) has information on how to fix > > this permission problem. > > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.linux;hb=HEAD > > Except this information is wrong in modern distros. Permissions are > regulated by udevd or systemd depending on the distro. If you follow > the instructions on that page, the permissions change will either be > temporary or overridden. > > Is this a scanner that was just added to the support list? If so, and > if Ubuntu's distro package is also failing to set it up properly, it > may be missing a udev or systemd rule (not sure which Ubuntu uses) to > make the device accessible to the console user. > > Of course, this is all assuming it's the actual problem... or the only one. > > What are the permissions of /dev/bus/usb/002/006? And what are the > user's groups set to? > > Monty > > > > This is assumin ghtis is the actul problem > > > > Regards, > > Stef > > > > > > > > -- > > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20130319/a099012a/attachment-0001.html>
