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[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 15:14:02 Y P wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:55:11PM +0000, g wrote:
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> > Y P wrote:
> > > I added myself to the group scanner but it doesn't seem to resolve the
> > 
> > is re-logging system or reboot required for group assignment?
> 
> Well, today is another day, and today I'm still unable to scan without being
> sudo, so rebooting or completely restart the pc doesn't fix the problem.
> That means it is really a perm problem.
>  
> > ria, a couple years back, when using mandrake, i had to do one or other
> > to get into scanner group.
> 
> As said, I added myself to scanner, but i am wondered to see sighted persons
> who doesn't had that problem from within Gnome/Xsane: in my case I have to
> fix it for the console.
> But note taht on a remove pc (Feisty) my partner does uses her scanner as
> well graphically as under console, without having to become sudo.
> 

I'm not for Ubuntu, but for SuSE, I simply tweaked 
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

# libusb device access
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0666"

something similar should be possible for Ubuntu too.

HTH
Gerhard