Re: USB scanner permission

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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