I have just acquired an Epson 1660 Photo scanner and I am having real trouble setting the permissions.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a howto that explains clearly how you are supposed to get permissions sorted out using hotplug with more recent 2.6 kernels. There's something about a script in /etc/hotplug/usb, but nothing I can find that tells you what you are supposed to do with it. The scanner works fine when run as root. The permssions of the usb device (/proc/usb/001/004 right at the moment) are -rw-rw---- root:scanner However, even though user robert is a member of group scanner, he can't get sane even to recognise the scanner. He can do it though if he chmods to root:users or root:audio or to most of the other groups he is a member of. On the other hand there are some other groups of which he is a member which don't seem to be able to access the scanner -- floppy and adm for instance. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Many thanks Robert -- Neonlicht Schimmendes Neonlicht Und wenn die Nacht anbricht Ist diese Stadt auslicht -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
