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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:53:37 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Permissions and SANE/scanimage
Message-ID:  <20080621105337.GC1058@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080621103624.GA3467@marge.bs.l>
References:  <20080621103624.GA3467@marge.bs.l>

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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an
> unprivileged user, I just get this error message:
> 
>   $ scanimage -L
> 
>   No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
>   check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
>   sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
>   which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> 
> I ended up in a brute force attempt saying in /etc/devfs.conf:
> 
>   perm * 0666
>
See 7.6.4 Giving Other Users Access to the Scanner
in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html

-- 
Marc



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