On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:23:57 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:37:15PM +0000, Camale??n wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: >> > Okay, we're back in "routine administration" territory. >> > >> > adding myself to group 'scanner' >> > >> > /etc/group:scanner:x:111:hplip,saned,jroth >> > /etc/gshadow:scanner:!::hplip,saned,jroth >> > >> > and then 'newgrp scanner' leads to a correct result for scanimage >> > --list-devices >> > >> > Will that be the new status quo when I reboot, or do I have to do >> > something to make it permanent? >> >> (...) >> >> If you manually added the "scanner" group and also (manually) added >> yourself to that group this has to be consistent between reboots, of >> course. But I wonder why is that the "scanner" group was not present in >> your system by default :-? > > I didn't express myself clearly, I added myself to the scanner group, I > didn't add the group.
Ah, then the scanner group was already present (that's correct) but your user should have been added to it automatically (I guess), at least that's how it is on my system (wheezy) and I have no TWAIN device attached to the netbook (no scanner, multi-function device, dsc camera... nothing). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/juot7h$ot7$4...@dough.gmane.org