From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 12: 8:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.0.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9145337B404 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:08:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382079829A for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:08:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by panix2.panix.com (8.11.3nb1/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id g0IK84u04340 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:08:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200201182008.g0IK84u04340@panix2.panix.com> Subject: How can I allow users to use teh scanner (sane) (deviec permissions?) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:08:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Stan Brown" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed sane last night, and runing scanimage as root it recognizes teh scanner. However I can't access it as a not privleged user. here is the device: crw-rw---- 1 root operator 31, 0 Jan 7 22:04 /dev/pass0 I add teh group read write bits manualy, and I'v added this to /etc/group operator:*:5:root.amanda.stan,sandi,sane I'm testing as user "stan" So why, when I run scanimage as that suer does it not see teh scanner? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message