Can't thank you enough Allan. I took the libsane.rules from the source tar (.../sane-backends-1.0.19/tools/udev) and renamed it to /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules
$ run+=/etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules created a user group called 'scanner' and added my user to the group. it works!:clap: m. allan noah-3 wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:44 PM, ronenk <rkahana at ztarmobile.com> wrote: >> >> Mea culpa - the fireware file was not placed in the correct directory. >> Once >> the file was placed in /usr/local/share/sane/epjitsu I was able to scan >> using sudo. Sorry for the hassle. >> >> How do I get non root users to be able to access the scanner? > > on your OS, you probably need to make a udev rule somewhere in > /etc/udev/rules.d. I think the file provided by fedora was > 60-libsane.rules. you might need to extract that file from the > original rpm, and add this machine's vid and pid > > allan > >> >> Thanks, >> Ronen >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/epjitsu-%28Fujitsu-fi-60f%29-on-fedora-8-tp20940308p20942714.html >> Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >> > > > > -- > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin" > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/epjitsu-%28Fujitsu-fi-60f%29-on-fedora-8-tp20940308p20943434.html Sent from the SANE - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
