Hi, On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:30:00PM +0200, Torben Andersen wrote: > I've installed a FC2 and updated. I can use sane, but only as root. I've > been googling and reading and narrowed the problem to the USB interface > to my Epson scanner. According to > http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux, hotplug (which is compiled in > the kernel) and /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner (pasted in below > signature) should enable useracces to the scanner, if > > "Usually you must just add the users that are allowed to access the scanner > to group "scanner"" > > I don't know how to do that.
man gpasswd man usermod man groups man group > If I unplug and plug the scanner, user acces is allowed, In this case hotplug is set up correctly. >but not on boot up ! I have heard rumors about this problem and was told that "coldplug" would help. But: > #!/bin/bash > # $Id: libusbscanner,v 1.1 2004/05/04 13:05:27 twaugh Exp $ This is not the libusbscanner script from the sane-backends package. It doesn't seem to work by using groups but by giving access to the scanner to anyone who is logged-in locally. Quite strange. Anyway, for details ask your distributor. I haven't looked at the details but if the device is plugged-in while nobody is logged in I guess only root can access it. Or do I misunderstand the script? Bye, Henning
