On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:30:46AM +1100, William Chivers wrote: > Searching for this problem in Slug and elsewhere locates plenty of > information about this problem and USB scanners, but nothing for > parallel scanners.
IIRC there's also some library thing that does this and doesn't need a specific /dev entry at all. Someone else will probably know more about it than I do though. > Should I locate the offending file and change its permissions? If so, > what is the file? Searching file:/ for "scanner" did not find anything > relevant. There is no scanner entry in /dev. Or should I somehow add > users to the scaner group or vice-versa? I suspect the answer is to alter the pam_console config to change these permissions for you when you login. Take a look at /etc/security/console.perms. The format is relatively clear. I couldn't tell you what the name of the device is though; I've never used a parallel port scanner. > > I had this problem with Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 and just ran the scanner as > root, thinking that Mandrake might eventually sort this out... I suspect it's a pretty uncommon configuration these days; it probably doesn't get much testing. It might be worth your while to file a bug about it. HTH, James. -- "Now, there are no problems only opportunities. However, this seemed to be an insurmountable opportunity." - http://www.surfare.net/~toolman/temp/diagram.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
