Re: scanimage -L doesn't work as normal user

From: Marc Fonvieille (blackend_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 07/30/05

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To: Erik Nørgaard <norgaard@math.ku.dk>

    On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
    > On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
    >
    > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
    > >
    > > Wrong perms on ugen0, read carefully:
    > > 7.6.4 Allowing Scanner Access to Other Users
    > > if you want ugen0 appears with the right permissions once you plug your
    > > scanner. The current devfs scheme you use (Cf. your previous mail)
    > > should work if you boot directly with your scanner plugged and not if
    > > you plug it later.
    >
    > According to the man-pages, this should be solved by adding the
    > folowing rules to /etc/devfs.rules:
    >
    > # Allow any user to access uscanner and ugen devices rw
    > add path 'usb0' mode 0666
    > add path 'ugen*' mode 0666
    > add path 'uscanner*' mode 0666
    >

    you should add a ruleset line before your lines.

    > I restarted devfs but the devices were created with the wrong
    > permissions when I plugged in the scanner?
    >

    I don't understand the "?"

    > If I restart devfs after plugging in the scanner permissions are
    > corrected. But I think this is rather annoying - is this intended?
    > no problem report has been filed on this issue...
    [...]

    I think it's a ruleset issue as I said above. Another thing devfs.rules
    is for pluggable devices, devfs.conf for devices present at boot time.

    Marc
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