Re: Scanner permission

On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:19 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
I am attempting to hook a USB scanner to a FC6 box and have the usual problem
of only being able to scan (and find the scanner) as root.

How do I go about fixing this?

Well, there's lots and lots of udev rules regarding scanners. The one
you probably are most interested in is in /etc/udev.d/50-udev.rules.

Look for the stanza:

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sg[0-9]*", BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{type}=="[36]", \
SYMLINK+="scanner scanner-%k", MODE="0660"

and change the MODE bit to "MODE=0666". That will change the scanner's
mode to "rw-rw-rw-" next time it's seen, so unplug it and plug it back
in after the change to /etc/udev.d/50-udev.rules.

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