Re: Patch: add ACL for parallel printer and scanner

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Le mercredi 07 octobre 2009 à 13:13 +0200, Kay Sievers a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:38, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > we are getting a lot of bug reports from users with parallel scanners
> > which are not able to using xsane when not running as root.
> >
> > I suggest to apply attached patch to add ACL to parallel port to fix
> > this issue.
> 
> This grants access to any device connected, to the parallel port, and
> is not limited to printers or scanners, right?
>   KERNEL=="parport[0-9]*",  ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"

Yes, since there is no possible autodetection on it.
> 
> Not sure if that is what we want that by default?

Well, we need to set ACL on parallel port for scanners (not sure it is
really needed for printers).

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mandriva

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