https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639
User kasievers@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462639#c6
Kay Sievers
well, the above listed udev-rule stems from 10.3 "as is", so this was a probably meaningful decision by openSUSE some time ago.
There are no openSUSE specific rules, they are part of the common udev rules, and most distros ship the same thing. The current rule logic should prevent the SCSI scanner to be in the "disk" group. It seems not to work for your scanner, it's probably not SCSI type "3" or "6". As said, the "disk" group should not be used for anything else than a "backup daemon" and similar, never for "normal" users.
From an user's standpoint (and from a maintainer's standpoint) it is bad if a regular user is simply kicked out of the usage of the scanner, what is, IMHO, > a very "normal" usecase, what I hope you can agree with.
It's not related to udev rules. Normal users should get an ACL at the device node, which is not managed by udev, or udev rules.
If I get your comment to Marcus Meissner correct, there should be support for SCSI-scanners in "the fdi-files". Can you be more specific which files are concerned so I could play around and try to figure out what is going wrong?
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