https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639
User kasievers@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639#c4
Kay Sievers
When installing a scsi-scanner in openSUSE 11.1, a regular user cannot access it. The corresponding udev-rule as existed in openSUSE 10.3 (for example) is not present in openSUSE 11.1:
50-udev-default.rules: # misc storage devices (non-block) KERNEL=="sg*", GROUP="disk", MODE="0640"
Scsi-generic devices of type "scanner" and "processor" intentionally do no get the group "disk" assigned, because they are not related to "storage". Anyway, no normal user should ever be in the "disk" group, it would allow the untrusted user to do things like format any disk on the system. (In reply to comment #3 from Marcus Meissner)
As for this problem, I am not sure our current HAL/udev setup can detect scanners reliably and make them available.
There is support in HAL for many USB scanners in fdi files. They match on vendor/product ids. In the fdi files is also support for SCSI scanners. It is expected to work, but I don't really know if it works reliably. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.