Scanner Frustration

[Sandy Pond]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 01:34 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 01:30 -0400, Sandy Pond wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:23 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > > A hotplug event a log-in (and after pam_console has done its stuff)
> > > seems to be what's needed, yes.
> > > 
> > 
> > IMO setting ownership to who's at the console is not the correct
> > paradigm.  In many cases the scanner is a shared resource ... like a
> > printer.  Consider:
> > 
> > http://www.sane-project.org/man/saned.1.html
> > 
> > IMO the best solution for now is to set the device permissions to be
> > world read/write.
> 
> umm, cmon - the use of the scanner as a shared resource is a MUCH rarer
> case than the person at the desktop being the person using the device.
> you have to admit the shared resource is a less common use.
> 

Not rare at all in my experience.  I setup saned/sane-net as the default
when installing a scanner ... even for local access (127.0.0.1).  This
is almost a must in a company setting, as your not going to buy a
scanner with a sheet feeder for every employee.  Additionally this type
of setup would be a lot more common if there was a good
system-config-sane.  

:)