[sane-devel] Only superuser can scan

[Nigel Ridley]

Antony Gelberg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a Debian testing box.  The normal user can't scan, but it's
> different to permissions problems that I've seen before.  He can see a
> scanner, but there is a question mark in the (incomplete) output of
> sane-find-scanner.  It's a Canon lide 60 (genesys backend).  I have
> bodged the permissions on /proc/bus/usb/001/002 to allow all rw, but no
> difference.  It's running 2.6.15, with udev, not hotplug.
> 
> aft:/home/dr# sane-find-scanner -q
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221c [CanoScan],
> chip=GL841) at libusb:001:002
> aft:/home/dr# su dr
> dr at aft:~$ sane-find-scanner -q
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x221c, chip=GL841?) at
> libusb:001:002
> dr at aft:~$ id
> uid=1001(dr) gid=513(Domain Users)
> groups=46(plugdev),110(scanner),111(saned),513(Domain Users)
> dr at aft:~$ ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001/002
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 57 2006-07-02 17:26 /proc/bus/usb/001/002
> dr at aft:~$ scanimage --version
> scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.17; backend version 1.0.17
> dr at aft:~$ uname -a
> Linux aft 2.6.15-1-k7 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:42:39 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Antony
> 


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