Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:15:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Patrick Hess <patrickhess@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk> Subject: Re: Permissions problem for sane Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508061514330.24695@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <1876444.Yqz8SnZpVd@desk8.phess.net> References: <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk> <1876444.Yqz8SnZpVd@desk8.phess.net>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Patrick Hess wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> Should I modify the permissions on /dev/ugen0.2? > > In contrast to what many other people might suggest, I'm personally not > a big fan of providing users broad access to all kinds of device nodes. > So instead of messing around with permissions, I prefer to make use of > the saned(8) network daemon. > > This is actually pretty straightforward to set up. You'll need to add > these two lines to your /etc/rc.conf: > > saned_enable="YES" > saned_uid="root" > > Now either reboot the machine or run the following command to start > the network daemon right away: > > # service saned start > > Then add the following line to /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf: > > localhost > > Any non-privileged user should now be able to access the scanner. > For starters, try to get a list of scanners available on the server: > > > scanimage -L > device `net:localhost:plustek:libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen1.2' > is a Canon CanoScan N1240U/LiDE30 flatbed scanner > > The nice part about using saned(8) is that you can easily make the > scanner available to other machines on the network. Just add your > network to the server's /usr/local/etc/sane.d/saned.conf and then > add an entry for the server to the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf > on each of the clients. This is the kind of stuff we should be adding to the Handbook section on scanners. Thank you for posting it!
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