[sane-devel] Problem with HP ScanJet 4p and SCSI

[David Brant]

Hello Dieter

I have heard of undev rules to somehow alter things at boot, so it
begins to make some sense to me!

My understanding of the user account situation is as follows:

I have enabled all user priveliges for me, username 'david', which
included administering the system (perhaps initially set for first
user). There are 3 other users, but without administrative rights. Only
david is has the password for sudo type operations. This is how i like
it to be.

Interestingly, i am not specifically associated with any group as such,
and neither are the other users. There is a facility to specifically
associate users with groups, which includes 'root, users, saned,
admin, ...'.

I simply created the accounts, and as far as i understand it we are all
just unique names at the moment. Maybe this is not the ideal way things
should be set up? I could assign myself and the other users to
particular groups, if needs be.

If possible i would like the scanner to be available to all users
(including me!)

The info on the undev is:

david at david-desktop:~$ ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  459 2009-05-28 21:51 70-persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  392 2009-05-28 20:19 70-persistent-net.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1398 2009-04-09 01:19 README
david at david-desktop:~$ 

Please let me know if you need anything else

Kind regards

Dave





On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 00:29 +0200, Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza wrote:
> Dear David,
> the behaviour you detected has been expected this way. We need to set up an 
> apriopriate udev-rule in order to make this work - no big deal. Please let me 
> know which group the user david belongs to - I guess "user" or "users", I am 
> not using ubuntu so I need your help in this regard.
> Furtermore, please check whether you have the directory /etc/udev and within 
> this one "rules" or something alike.
> I need to know where to put the rules - file.
> On opensuse I have /etc/udev/rules.d, within it a list of files entitled 
> XX-<name>.rules
> where XX is a number like "55" or so.
> If that exists on your site, please send me a ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d, because 
> I have to set up a rule file for you that adjusts the device properties 
> automatically on boot.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> take care
> 
> 
> 
> Dieter
> 
> Am Freitag 05 Juni 2009 23:24:12 schrieben Sie:
> > Hello Dieter
> >
> > Many thanks for the reply. Hopefully (like me) you find the best
> > holidays are away from the internet :-)
> ******
> 
>