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Re: [opensuse] Sometimes, I'm denied access to my scanner as user. [culprit found!]
  • From: Peter Hoyer <peter.hoyer@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:43:44 +0100
  • Message-id: <200812021443.45142.peter.hoyer@xxxxxx>
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 14:32:52 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2008-12-02 at 13:25 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
nimrodel:~ # lshal | grep -i scanner
nimrodel:~ # lshal | grep -i epson
info.vendor = 'Seiko Epson Corp.' (string)
usb_device.vendor = 'Seiko Epson Corp.' (string)
usb.vendor = 'Seiko Epson Corp.' (string)
nimrodel:~ #

There is nothing about "scanner".

cer@nimrodel:~> getfacl /dev/bus/usb/003/007
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/bus/usb/003/007
# owner: root
# group: lp
user::rw-
group::rw-
other::r--

The above says I have permission as user.

I logged out and in of gnome - still no access.

I added myself to group "lp", then logged out and in of gnome - still no
access, as user.

Only my experience: in a similar case, try to reboot instead and reconfigure
the scanner with yast.

Kind regards

Peter


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