Re: permissions

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Sun, 04 Oct 1998 19:48:54 +0200

Rick Knebel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got a new umax 1220s scanner and have a buslogic 958 card.
>
> I am runnning redhat 5.1.
>
> I installed sane and everything works fine as root, but as a user when I invoke xscanimage i do not get the umax choice just pn0 and pn1.
>
> I followed the directions with creating a scanner group and adding the users and changing the permissions, but still no luck.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks Alot
>
> Rick

Hi Rick,

you have to set the permissions for /dev/sg?.
Changing the permissions of /dev/scanner does not work!

After you changed /etc/groups, you have to log out and log in again to get the new group-membership!

Bye
Oliver

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