On 1/2/08, Nick Urbanik <nicku at nicku.org> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am having problems setting up saned on Fedora 8: > $ grep sane /var/log/rpmpkgs > libsane-hpaio-2.7.7-6.fc8.i386.rpm > sane-backends-1.0.18-17.fc8.i386.rpm > sane-backends-devel-1.0.18-17.fc8.i386.rpm > sane-backends-libs-1.0.18-17.fc8.i386.rpm > sane-frontends-1.0.14-3.fc7.i386.rpm > xsane-0.994-4.fc8.i386.rpm > xsane-gimp-0.994-4.fc8.i386.rpm > > I've created user and group saned. > $ grep saned /etc/passwd > saned:x:1020:1021:User to run saned scanner daemon only:/:/sbin/nologin > > When I do: > $ sudo -u saned sane-find-scanner |grep ^found > found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x5511) at libusb:003:004 > However, as myself, we also get the model information: > $ sane-find-scanner |grep ^found > found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [HP], product=0x5511 [Deskjet F300 series]) > at > +libusb:003:004 > $ scanimage -L > device `hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN72FGM1CB04KH' is a > Hewlett-Packard Deskjet_F300_series all-in-one > And as the saned user, we get no biscuit: > $ sudo -u saned scanimage -L > > No scanners were identified. > > Here are the permissions: > $ ls -l /proc/bus/usb/003/004 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147 2008-01-03 06:21 /proc/bus/usb/003/004 > $ cat /selinux/enforce 0 > > local scanning works fine for me.
local scanning works fine as what user? the perms on that node dont allow anyone other than root to write to the device... allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
