Jochen,
the only way you can get it to work is by making the programs that
access the pio device (the frontends) SUID root:
chown root xscanimage xsane scanimage
chmod 4755 xscanimage xsane scanimage
... of course you have to provide the correct paths for the
three programs.
Karl Heinz
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:22:59PM -0500, Jochen Weiss wrote:
> I got an old Epson ES300C parallel port scanner from a friend of mine and I
> got
> it to run under Mandrake 7.2 as root (which is not recommended and did
> indeed do
> same bad things to the program while running). So my question is:
> How can i change the permissions on the pio 0x378 so that I can run it as
> regular
> user. This is easy to solve for a SCSI port since its a device, but the pio
> doesn't use a device...
> Any help would be greatly appreciated....
>
> Jochen Weiss
>
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