Re: [tlug] Scanner is driving me nuts

[Lewske Wada <ryu@example.com>]

Raedwolf Summoner wrote :
> Sylvain Vedrenne <sylvain.vedrenne@example.com> wrote:
> >Maybe you could run commands "lsusb" and "groups" and share 
> >their output with us?
>
> That was prescient, suggesting that even before I ran the 
> scanner as super user and found I was able to use it. I 
> realize this must be a permissions problem, I just don't 
> know how to address it. Here is my "groups" output:
> raroof@example.com:~$ groups
> raroof adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare
> No scanner in there, but I don't know what to do about it.

I think the group the device file belonged to was "disk" or something.
Anyway you can change the permission with write access so that
general users other than root can access it like this :

$ sudo chmod 666 /dev/sg1
$ ls -l /dev/sg1
crw-rw-rw-  1 root disk 21, 1 Mar  2 09:06 /dev/sg1


Cheers,
Lewske "Ryu" Wada
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