On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:28:18 -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > Installed xsane > > > and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but > > > still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. > > Are you sure that the group change (ie. adding yourself to 'scanner') has > been applied to the shell you're running xsane from? (Check the output of > 'groups' or 'id -Gn').
Yes, did that. > > You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells > spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient > way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) More than that, I logged out and back on again from console and then restarted X. I had a feeling that was necessary, but perhaps it was overkill. But yes, it is inelegant. > > A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to > 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... I didn't know that. Thanks. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
