>> ... i personally dont have much problem with users being able >> to plug scanner into machine and make it >> work without root permissions ... > > Admins don't like it when normal users can plug in whatever > hardware and make it work. > Admins want to be able to define what the normal users are > allowed to do and what not.
you should say 'the average admin', because i for one (an abnormal admin) dont care. > But it is perfect when - as Oliver said - there is a SANE admin > authentication in the frontend (like the CUPS admin authentication > for http://localhost:631/admin) and root can define who is a SANE admin > (by default it is only root but root can add any user to be a SANE admin). i dont see much way to make this happen, sane does not really have the infrastructure of CUPS, since no daemon is required to be running in sane. perhaps a system like pam could be exploited? allan
