Scanner permission

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:41:41 -0800
Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> 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.

That doesn't seem to have done it.

scanimage -L tells me:

device `epson:libusb:005:004' is a Epson GT-8300 flatbed scanner

However, ll /proc/bus/usb/005 shows me this:

total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43 Feb 28 06:56 001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Feb 28 06:56 004



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