SCSI scanner device ownership and permissions
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Aug 11 07:31:25 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 03:22 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I have trouble using a SCSI scanner on Fedora Core 4. The trouble
> boils down to the fact that /dev/sg0 (where the scanner appears) is
> only root-writable, so I have to scan as the superuser -- not safe,
> not sensible.
>
> The quickest kludge is to chown /dev/sg0. But that node gets rebuilt
> on each boot (I think) so the chown would need to be done after each
> boot. Pretty annoying.
What type of scanner do you have?
Please post the output of:
# udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sg0)
Paul.
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