USB scanner permission

[Andrea Mastellone]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> John Thompson wrote:
>> After one of the latest rounds of updates of FC8 I find I can no 
>> longer use xsane as a normal user: it shows the "Looking for devices" 
>> pop-up but never finds my USB scanner. If I run xsane as "root" it 
>> works fine, so apparently this is a permission problem.
>>
>> How do I determine which device file in /dev is being used for the 
>> scanner? This used to be simple before the days of udev...
>>
> This should be handled by a combination of 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules and 
> /etc/security/console.perms.d//etc/security/console.perms.d
> 
> I can not really test it here, as I am using a network scanner, and that 
> is working.
> 
> Mikkel
> 

Simple trick (but not definitive):

As root, find your device and bus id by lsusb. Then, cd to

/dev/bus/usb/xxx/

(xxx being the bus id)

and chmod o+rw the device id.

AndreArtu