On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:29:04PM -0400, k...@khk.net wrote: > This is a limitation all parallel port scanners have when used with Sane. > You already know the reason for this: Sane uses the IO ports and not > the device file to talk to the scanner. > > As long as you trust everybody who's using your computer, you can just > make the frontend(s) you are using setuid root programs. This way, the > program will always run as root, regardless of which user is actually > running it.
Thank you for this assurance. I've already accepted that but since I don't know low-level access issues I wanted to see whether there is anything I've missed. Anyway, thanks and congratulations to the developers of the backend supporting the parallel connection. The Win/Mac drivers only support SCSI ;-) Best, Petr
