Thanxes it works great. Eric > Eric Tanguy can only use his scanner as root. > > He wrote: >> Yes it works like this. But i don't want to unplug and plug it back >> when i want to use it. What's the problem and how solve it ? > > Possibly the problem is the USB device node, /proc/bus/usb/$BUS/$DEVICE > only having write permissions for root. > > If you do a sane-find-scanner, you'll get a line somewhat like this: > found USB scanner (vendor=0x05d8, product=0x4003, chip=GT-6816) at > libusb:001:002 > > The two last numbers are the interesting ones: in my case, $BUS is 001 > and $DEVICE is 002. My scanner's device node is /proc/bus/usb/001/002, > which by default was owned by root with permissions of 644. > > I solved this by creating a symlink from /dev/scanner to > /proc/bus/usb/001/002. Then when I login at the console, > /proc/bus/usb/001/002 is chowned to james and chmodded to 600. Now I can > scan as a normal user. > > HTH, > > James. > > -- > E-mail address: james@ | Banana in disk drive error > westexe.demon.co.uk | > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
