Re: Scanner Frustration

[Sandy Pond <sandy_pond myrealbox com>]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:23 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> A hotplug event a log-in (and after pam_console has done its stuff)
> seems to be what's needed, yes.
> 

IMO setting ownership to who's at the console is not the correct
paradigm.  In many cases the scanner is a shared resource ... like a
printer.  Consider:

http://www.sane-project.org/man/saned.1.html

IMO the best solution for now is to set the device permissions to be
world read/write.