Re: Permissions and SANE/scanimage

2008-06-21 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi,

Am Samstag, 21. Jun 2008, 12:53:37 +0200 schrieb Marc Fonvieille:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> > my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an
> > unprivileged user, I just get this error message:
> > 
> >   $ scanimage -L
> > 
> >   No scanners were identified. [...]
> See 7.6.4 Giving Other Users Access to the Scanner
> in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html

Argh. Was a long day yesterday. I stopped reading it when Xsane
appeared.

Sorry for the noise.

Bertram


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Re: Permissions and SANE/scanimage

2008-06-21 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an
> unprivileged user, I just get this error message:
> 
>   $ scanimage -L
> 
>   No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
>   check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
>   sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
>   which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 
> I ended up in a brute force attempt saying in /etc/devfs.conf:
> 
>   perm * 0666
>
See 7.6.4 Giving Other Users Access to the Scanner
in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html

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Marc
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