Hi all, I have a parallel port scanner. Right now I have to use root to scan. I know that its a permission problem. How do I change the permissions to allow a user to use the scanner? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php
James Hatridge wrote:
Hi all,
I have a parallel port scanner. Right now I have to use root to scan. I know that its a permission problem. How do I change the permissions to allow a user to use the scanner?
The following URL is mentioned in the Scanner-HOWTO, which is part of the howto package that you probably should have installed on your system. http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/digitalimage/Scanning-as-Normal-User-o... "The problem is that the SANE driver for some scanners access the parallel port (or any other port or proprietary card) directly, without use of the kernel. Such way of device access is only possible for root. Due to the kernel not being used there is no special file in /dev or /proc which represents scanner and whose permissions can be opened for normal users." In the subsequent instructions, some of the filenames will be different in SuSE, but the directories where they are located are the same.
Hello, On Aug 26 16:53 James Hatridge wrote (shortened):
I have a parallel port scanner. Right now I have to use root to scan. I know that its a permission problem. How do I change the permissions to allow a user to use the scanner?
For example see how to use "saned" and "net" backend at http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/10/jsmeix_scanner-setup-92.html at the end of the "libusb + resmgr + PAM" section. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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Darryl Gregorash
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James Hatridge
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