Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
John Thompson wrote:
After one of the latest rounds of updates of FC8 I find I can no
longer use xsane as a normal user: it shows the "Looking for devices"
pop-up but never finds my USB scanner. If I run xsane as "root" it
works fine, so apparently this is a permission problem.
How do I determine which device file in /dev is being used for the
scanner? This used to be simple before the days of udev...
This should be handled by a combination of
/etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules and
/etc/security/console.perms.d//etc/security/console.perms.d
I can not really test it here, as I am using a network scanner, and that
is working.
Mikkel
Simple trick (but not definitive):
As root, find your device and bus id by lsusb. Then, cd to
/dev/bus/usb/xxx/
(xxx being the bus id)
and chmod o+rw the device id.
AndreArtu
