Re: sane access for non-root user
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 18:42:38 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: There's the 'newgrp' command if you want to avoid losing your X session and can stand winning just one shell at a time. 'sg' is somewhat analagous to 'su', though at atomic number 106. I think that was Rf when I was at school. Who was Seaborg anyway? Still, I suppose he has the labs, so he doesn't need the element too. But I did not know about sg, which is obviously useful. Thanks Karsten. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane access for non-root user
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 20:53:09 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine.
I forget exactly where though... /etc/udev/ would be a starting point.
I had already looked there, and /etc/udev/rules.d contains the line:
# Epson Corp.|Perfection 1260
SYSFS{idVendor}==04b8, SYSFS{idProduct}==011d, MODE=660, GROUP=sca\
nner, RUN+=/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug
Which sounds perfect to me. Must be more to it than that, I guess.
Sounds perfect, but it's not. Did you check and see what damage
/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug might be doing? It _could_ be
undoing the permissions.
I am fumbling here, but /etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug is not too long
and says around line 27
chown $3 $DEVICE chmod $4 $DEVICE
Can it be that this relates to the info taken from /etc/udev/rules.d
(see above), cos if so $3 and $4 are reversed? Or is that too obvious...
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Re: sane access for non-root user
On 12/14/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 20:53:09 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine.
I forget exactly where though... /etc/udev/ would be a starting point.
I had already looked there, and /etc/udev/rules.d contains the line:
# Epson Corp.|Perfection 1260
SYSFS{idVendor}==04b8, SYSFS{idProduct}==011d, MODE=660, GROUP=sca\
nner, RUN+=/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug
Which sounds perfect to me. Must be more to it than that, I guess.
Sounds perfect, but it's not. Did you check and see what damage
/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug might be doing? It _could_ be
undoing the permissions.
I am fumbling here, but /etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug is not too long
and says around line 27
chown $3 $DEVICE chmod $4 $DEVICE
Can it be that this relates to the info taken from /etc/udev/rules.d
(see above), cos if so $3 and $4 are reversed? Or is that too obvious...
That's about where I cheated and changed it to:
chown root:scanner $DEVICE chmod 0660 $DEVICE
I'm not exactly sure the order parameters are passed to the RUN+
script from udev, so I can't say whether $3 and $4 are actually
correct.
On the other hand, if udev only provides a group, and $3 is that
group, then 'chown $3' is technically wrong and could very well be the
cause.
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Re: sane access for non-root user
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just spent over an hour googling in vain. And I am sure I should know the answer to this... New sid install (on a not-new Dell Inspiron 8200 FWIW). Installed xsane and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Can someone remind me or point me at the relevant instructions. uname -r says 2.6.12-1-386. udevd is running -- I suppose that is obvious as the scanner works for root. What else is important? udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine. I forget exactly where though... /etc/udev/ would be a starting point. use 'lsusb' to show the device list When the scanner is plugged in check /proc/bus/usb/XXX/NNN where XXX is the bus and NNN is the device listed in lsusb output... and find the device and see what the permissions actually are. you can manually change the permissions on the device too, just chgrp scanner NNN and chmod g+rw NNN -- ~ Darryl ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://smartssa.com / http://darrylclarke.com
Re: sane access for non-root user
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just spent over an hour googling in vain. And I am sure I should know the answer to this... New sid install (on a not-new Dell Inspiron 8200 FWIW). Installed xsane and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Can someone remind me or point me at the relevant instructions. uname -r says 2.6.12-1-386. udevd is running -- I suppose that is obvious as the scanner works for root. What else is important? Are you sure that the group change (ie. adding yourself to 'scanner') has been applied to the shell you're running xsane from? (Check the output of 'groups' or 'id -Gn'). You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... FWIW, -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane access for non-root user
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:28:18 -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Installed xsane and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Are you sure that the group change (ie. adding yourself to 'scanner') has been applied to the shell you're running xsane from? (Check the output of 'groups' or 'id -Gn'). Yes, did that. You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) More than that, I logged out and back on again from console and then restarted X. I had a feeling that was necessary, but perhaps it was overkill. But yes, it is inelegant. A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... I didn't know that. Thanks. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane access for non-root user
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Installed xsane
and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but
still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Can someone
remind me or point me at the relevant instructions.
uname -r says 2.6.12-1-386. udevd is running -- I suppose that is
obvious as the scanner works for root. What else is important?
udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine.
I forget exactly where though... /etc/udev/ would be a starting point.
I had already looked there, and /etc/udev/rules.d contains the line:
# Epson Corp.|Perfection 1260
SYSFS{idVendor}==04b8, SYSFS{idProduct}==011d, MODE=660, GROUP=sca\
nner, RUN+=/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug
Which sounds perfect to me. Must be more to it than that, I guess.
use 'lsusb' to show the device list
When the scanner is plugged in check /proc/bus/usb/XXX/NNN where XXX
is the bus and NNN is the device listed in lsusb output... and find
the device and see what the permissions actually are.
you can manually change the permissions on the device too, just chgrp
scanner NNN and chmod g+rw NNN
That worked. But I hope I don't have to do it manually every time I
reboot or hotplug the device.
Thanks a million.
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Re: sane access for non-root user
Brad Sawatzky wrote: Are you sure that the group change (ie. adding yourself to 'scanner') has been applied to the shell you're running xsane from? (Check the output of 'groups' or 'id -Gn'). You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell... Use 'newgrp groupname'. That essentially puts you in a new shell with all the environment carried forward but recognizes the specified group and also makes it the primary group for that shell. Jerry Quinn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane access for non-root user
%% Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) rl More than that, I logged out and back on again from console and rl then restarted X. I had a feeling that was necessary, but perhaps rl it was overkill. But yes, it is inelegant. You do have to log out, but you don't have to restart X. Going back to your GDM or XDM or whatever screen and logging in again is good enough. And yes, it's inelegant that you have to do this, but no there's no better way. You can test it with the ssh localhost trick, but you have to log out to have it set for your session. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] HASMAT--HA Software Mthds Tools Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional. --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions--Nortel takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane access for non-root user
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:28:18 -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Installed xsane and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Are you sure that the group change (ie. adding yourself to 'scanner') has been applied to the shell you're running xsane from? (Check the output of 'groups' or 'id -Gn'). Yes, did that. You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) More than that, I logged out and back on again from console and then restarted X. I had a feeling that was necessary, but perhaps it was overkill. But yes, it is inelegant. Hmm. It might be useful to post the output of 'sane-find-scanner', and 'sudo sane-find-scanner'(or however you want to run the command as root) What are the 'default' permissions and group (assigned by udev) on your scanner device? Perhaps you could try unplugging the scanner and confirming that the appropriate device file is being removed/created by udev. If udev is indeed handling the device, then the application of the rules file (/etc/udev/rules.d/025_libsane.rules on my box) is either borked (reinstall libsane and/or udev), or there are multiple rules matching your scanner (and the last one is screwing up the permissions set by libsane.rules). -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane access for non-root user
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Installed xsane
and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but
still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Can someone
remind me or point me at the relevant instructions.
uname -r says 2.6.12-1-386. udevd is running -- I suppose that is
obvious as the scanner works for root. What else is important?
udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine.
I forget exactly where though... /etc/udev/ would be a starting point.
I had already looked there, and /etc/udev/rules.d contains the line:
# Epson Corp.|Perfection 1260
SYSFS{idVendor}==04b8, SYSFS{idProduct}==011d, MODE=660, GROUP=sca\
nner, RUN+=/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug
Which sounds perfect to me. Must be more to it than that, I guess.
Sounds perfect, but it's not. Did you check and see what damage
/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug might be doing? It _could_ be
undoing the permissions.
It's been a while since I messed with my scanner, but I think I
remember having something similar happen, I just edited the libsane
script and forced the permissions at the end. not very graceful, but
I was annoyed. :)
use 'lsusb' to show the device list
When the scanner is plugged in check /proc/bus/usb/XXX/NNN where XXX
is the bus and NNN is the device listed in lsusb output... and find
the device and see what the permissions actually are.
you can manually change the permissions on the device too, just chgrp
scanner NNN and chmod g+rw NNN
That worked. But I hope I don't have to do it manually every time I
reboot or hotplug the device.
You will :) Until the script(s) are sorted out, you will...
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Re: sane access for non-root user
on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 04:49:46PM -0500, Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: %% Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You may have to log out of your Xsession and log in again to get shells spawned using the new/updated group assignments. (Is there a more efficient way to do this? This seems really inelegant.) rl More than that, I logged out and back on again from console and rl then restarted X. I had a feeling that was necessary, but perhaps rl it was overkill. But yes, it is inelegant. You do have to log out, but you don't have to restart X. Going back to your GDM or XDM or whatever screen and logging in again is good enough. And yes, it's inelegant that you have to do this, but no there's no better way. You can test it with the ssh localhost trick, but you have to log out to have it set for your session. There's the 'newgrp' command if you want to avoid losing your X session and can stand winning just one shell at a time. 'sg' is somewhat analagous to 'su', though at atomic number 106. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Yes sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage. - A. Guthrie signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: sane access for non-root user
Quoting Darryl Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote:
On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Installed xsane
and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but
still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user. Can someone
remind me or point me at the relevant instructions.
uname -r says 2.6.12-1-386. udevd is running -- I suppose that is
obvious as the scanner works for root. What else is important?
udev isn't setting permissions properly on the device, I would imagine.
I forget exactly where though... /etc/udev/ would be a starting point.
I had already looked there, and /etc/udev/rules.d contains the line:
# Epson Corp.|Perfection 1260
SYSFS{idVendor}==04b8, SYSFS{idProduct}==011d, MODE=660, GROUP=sca\
nner, RUN+=/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug
Which sounds perfect to me. Must be more to it than that, I guess.
Sounds perfect, but it's not. Did you check and see what damage
/etc/hotplug.d/usb/libsane.hotplug might be doing? It _could_ be
undoing the permissions.
This sounds exactly like the same issue as I reported a few days ago on this
list with gphoto2 and a USB camera. The USB device node was not updated
to have
the correct group ownership by the hotplug scripts. I didn't receive an answer
on that question though. Maybe this is more of a generic issue where
permissions on USB device are not set correctly, regardless of whether it's a
camera or scanner?
/Daniel
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