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

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 03:09:02PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote:
> >
> >> For the sake of completeness: devd has to be restarted after changes to 
> >> devd.conf, and the code above is only executed when the scanner is detected 
> >> (USB cable plugged in or scanner powered on).
> >
> > I rebooted and plugged in the scanner but no changes.
> 
> One other difference I found in my /etc/devfs.rules:
> 
> add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group operator
> add path 'usb/*' mode 0770 group operator

Mode 0660 should be sufficient. Just make sure there is a newline at the end
of the last rule! Otherwise the shell script that processes them will not see
them. The command 'devfs rule show' will tell you which rules have actually
been created.

Roland
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