Re: Scanner permissions - works as root, but not user

[tyche <tyche ica net>]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 19:34, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jay Crews wrote:
> > I have a Epson Perfection 1670 scanner
> > that I __FINALLY__ got to work on my RH8.0 box.
> > Had to do some ugly "rpm --force --nodeps" to get it going,
> > and it might come back and bite me, but it works.
> >
> > Now my problem is, it'll work fine as root, but I get
> > "no scanner found" when running it as a regular user.
> > I'm SURE this is a permission problem, but cannot figure
> > which one.
> >
> > /dev/usb/scanner0 was chmod 600 and I changed it to 666
> > I had to add /etc/sane.d/esfw30.bin firmware, and edit
> > /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf to tell it it was there.
> >
> > /etc/sane.d/esfw30.bin was 600 and I changed it to 666
> > /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf was 644 and I left it as is.
> >
> > I'm not sure where else to look.
>
> Some of the backends REQUIRE root permissions (e.g. several of
> the Mustek SCSI or USB backends).  Not much you can do about it
> unless you set up a script that does an "sudo" to run it.
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www.epsonkowa.co.jp has an enduser program for scanning. it works real well. i 
have a 1260 that i have to manually install the driver via a script each time 
i reboot. (i dont do that very often thankfully.).
if the url is wrong, my apologies. i havent been to the sight for awhile.

tyche