[sane-devel] using parallel port scanner as ordinary user in recent version of Fedora

[Andre Robatino]

m. allan noah wrote:
>
> this is just a permissions problem? can you get the udev subsystem to 
> set the mode of the parport file to something more permissive?
>
>>
  It's definitely a permissions problem.  The permissions on 
/dev/parport0 are:

crw-rw---- 1 root lp 99, 0 Jul 11 13:19 /dev/parport0

  Prior to udev we simply changed the permissions to 666 and that 
worked.  On my Fedora box, I tried editing 
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules by changing the permissions in the line

KERNEL=="parport*",             GROUP="lp", MODE="0660"

to 666.  This didn't work - after rebooting, the permissions are still 
660.  I read something somewhere about this having something to do with 
pam security which I don't know anything about.  It seems that figuring 
out how to change the permissions to 666 will be at least as difficult 
as finding out how to do this the "right" way.