[sane-devel] permissions for parallel port scanners

2001-07-23 Thread Simon Krix
> > So I want to ask all authors of backends that support > > parallel port scanners to work out a common way > > (sanei_parallel_*) to talk as user to the scanner. > > These sanei_parallel_* routines should run on > > as much systems as possible (not only linux!). > > Please see sf.net/projects/l

[sane-devel] permissions for parallel port scanners

2001-07-22 Thread Tim Waugh
--QK8nhFMwR+o7J1de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Oliver Rauch wrote: > So I want to ask all authors of backends that support > parallel port scanners to work out a common way > (sanei_parallel_*) to talk as user to

[sane-devel] permissions for parallel port scanners

2001-07-22 Thread Oliver Rauch
Hello. Now we have some parallel port scanners supported by sane and I get several messages with questions how the people can access their scanner as user. We need a better way to handle these scanners. It really is dangerous to run the frontends as root or with suid=root. So I want to ask all a

[sane-devel] permissions for parallel port scanners

2001-07-22 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
--ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Parallel port scanners are a dying breed. As far as the EPSON backend is concerned, I don't see any need to=20 update / modify the way the scanner is accessed.=20