Re: Scanner permission

[Frank Cox <theatre sasktel net>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:41:51 -0800
Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:

> You're right regarding SCSI vs. USB.  I suspect a similar line in udev
> might handle USB as well, but I've not tried it.  Regardless, couldn't
> one could change the /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms file
> to use 666 permissions?  All the he's really worried about is allowing
> anyone to use the scanner, not who owns it.

Unfortunately, I don't have a /dev/scanner or /dev/usb/scanner device as
listed in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms; this scanner doesn't
seem to do whatever it needs to do to create one.

It works, though -- I can scan as root.

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