[sane-devel] udev rules question for hp-psc2355

[Rick Miles]

I have been using saned for networking scanners on slackware for 3 or so years 
with hpoj and a hp-psc2355 but recently upgraded the server box to slack-12.1 and 
decided to not use hpoj as its a bit old.

I set up as usually with permissions, /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf 
and /etc/sane.d config files on both server and clients. I could scan as a user 
in an ssh session on the server but could not do so as client. 

I finally figured out that the permissions being set up were defined 
in /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpumd.rules and not in 80-libsane.rules. The device 
belonged to root:lp and in order to allow users to scan I had to change 
permissions from 0664 to 0666 in the rule. I suppose the alternative would be to 
make the users members of lp but I've never heard of users being members of lp 
before.

What is correct in this situation? 

-- 
Cheers,

Rick Miles

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