libusb scanner

[Bill Nottingham]

Erwin Rol (mailinglists at erwinrol.com) said: 
> I have a (old) HP6300C USB scanner, that used to work with a usbscanner
> (or was that hpscanner?) kernel module. That kernel module is gone, now
> xsane and kooka only can use it via libusb. The problem is this only
> seems to work when i am root. Is there a way to let normal users use the
> scanner?

This should be fixed in FC5 - I tested it with a USB scanner shortly
before release.

What *should* happen is that the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules
get run, making a scanner-<whatever> symlink to /dev/bus/usb/XXX. This
device is then chown'ed via pam_console, later by udev.

Bill