[Novalug] still tryig to figure out how to set permissions on scanner

Richard Ertel richard.ertel@gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 08:05:42 EST 2009


what are the user, group, and permissions on /dev/sg6 after a boot? if
it is assigned to a group other than 'scanner', you could try adding
your user account to whatever group is listed by default.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 20:20, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:29:54PM -0500, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
>>>
>>> Xsane stopped working with the upgrade from Ubuntu Intrepid to Ubunto
>>> Jaunty.
>>>
>> It is not you, it appears to be a problem with Jaunty.  See this link:
>>
>> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Ubuntu/2009-09/msg00481.html
>>
>> The author had a scsi scanner working from Feisty through Hardy which
>> stopped working in Jaunty except as root.  There is a udev rule shown
>> which may fix the problem.  In other links the suggestion was to
>> recover your udev rule from the earlier release and it should still
>> work fine.
>
> Ok how does one recover an udev rule?
>
> I do have a temp fix:
>
> I seem to be coming down with a cold so I had no creative energy so I
> spent most of today trying the various suggestions and doing more
> searching on the Ubuntu groups which resulted finally in one
> suggestion:
>
> I run the following lines from a terminal:
>
> sudo chgrp scanner /dev/sg6
> sudo chmod 770 /dev/sg6
>
> and it works (I actually made a little shell script to do this.
>
> but it has to be run after each boot. the chmod does not carry over.
>
>
>
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