Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

the solution is udev, you need to google about it.



On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:09 PM, stan<gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
> I managed to get a usb scanner working for root, but I don't want to
> always have to go into /dev/bus/usb/002/ and change the permissions so a
> regular user can use it.  Is there an elegant way to allow a regular
> user to run xsane for a USB scanner?   That works even when it is not
> present at boot but is hot plugged later?
>
> I didn't find anything in a web search, though there were hints that
> this could be done through udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d somehow.
> There doesn't appear to be a scanner group or a usb group to add my user
> to, and I think that creating an fstab entry with user permissions like
> cd and dvd for usb is obsolete.
>
> So, what is the solution?
>
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