USB scanner permission

Andrea Mastellone andrea.mastellone at fastwebnet.it
Fri Feb 22 08:30:46 UTC 2008


John Thompson wrote:
> On 2008-02-20, Andrea Mastellone <andrea.mastellone at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 
>> Simple trick (but not definitive):
>>
>> As root, find your device and bus id by lsusb. Then, cd to
> 
> Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04b8:0101 Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 636
> 
> 
>> /dev/bus/usb/xxx/
>>
>> (xxx being the bus id)
>>
>> and chmod o+rw the device id.
> 
> [root at lancre ~]# ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/006
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root users 189, 5 Feb 20 16:26 /dev/bus/usb/001/006
> 
> Still no joy. :-(
> 

I am sorry... on my system this trick works perfectly. Perhaps you have 
to tune udev setting at this point, but I do not know how to help you :|

Andrea




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