Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Roland Smith wrote:

> Are the permissions correct? Check with 'ls -l /dev/usb/ /dev/ugen*'.
> Is your user-id in the usb group? Check by running 'id' as the normal user.
>
> If all that is in order, remove all lines except the three above from
> /etc/devfs.rules, and try again.

Running id as user looks ok:

uid=1001(marco) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),5(operator),1001(usb)

But the permissions are not:

ls -l /dev/usb/ /dev/ugen*
lrw-rw-r--  1 root  usb  9 Apr 28 19:05 /dev/ugen0.1 -> usb/0.1.0
lrw-rw-r--  1 root  usb  9 Apr 28 19:05 /dev/ugen1.1 -> usb/1.1.0
lrw-rw-r--  1 root  usb  9 Apr 28 21:05 /dev/ugen1.2 -> usb/1.2.0
lrw-rw-r--  1 root  usb  9 Apr 28 21:05 /dev/ugen1.3 -> usb/1.3.0
lrw-rw-r--  1 root  usb  9 Apr 28 19:05 /dev/ugen2.1 -> usb/2.1.0

/dev/usb/:
total 0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0,  87 Apr 28 19:05 0.1.0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0,  93 Apr 28 19:05 0.1.1
crw-------  1 root  operator    0,  89 Apr 28 19:05 1.1.0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0,  94 Apr 28 19:05 1.1.1
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 104 Apr 28 21:05 1.2.0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 105 Apr 28 21:05 1.2.1
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 117 Apr 28 21:05 1.3.0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0, 119 Apr 28 21:05 1.3.1
crw-------  1 root  operator    0,  91 Apr 28 19:05 2.1.0
crw-------  1 root  operator    0,  95 Apr 28 19:05 2.1.1

Regards,
Marco
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