Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 22:16:59 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Patrick Hess <patrickhess@gmx.net>, Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Permissions problem for sane Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmom%2BgG9b1imVzL9nx6HQmTSHr0n8WXg%2B7J7VksgAhHyO5g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508061514330.24695@wonkity.com> References: <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk> <1876444.Yqz8SnZpVd@desk8.phess.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508061514330.24695@wonkity.com>
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Hi! Why isn't this the default behaviour for the saned package? Would it be possible to make it just be said default behaviour? -a On 6 August 2015 at 14:15, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Patrick Hess wrote: > >> Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> >>> Should I modify the permissions on /dev/ugen0.2? >> >> >> In contrast to what many other people might suggest, I'm personally not >> a big fan of providing users broad access to all kinds of device nodes. >> So instead of messing around with permissions, I prefer to make use of >> the saned(8) network daemon. >> >> This is actually pretty straightforward to set up. You'll need to add >> these two lines to your /etc/rc.conf: >> >> saned_enable="YES" >> saned_uid="root" >> >> Now either reboot the machine or run the following command to start >> the network daemon right away: >> >> # service saned start >> >> Then add the following line to /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf: >> >> localhost >> >> Any non-privileged user should now be able to access the scanner. >> For starters, try to get a list of scanners available on the server: >> >> > scanimage -L >> device `net:localhost:plustek:libusb:/dev/usb:/dev/ugen1.2' >> is a Canon CanoScan N1240U/LiDE30 flatbed scanner >> >> The nice part about using saned(8) is that you can easily make the >> scanner available to other machines on the network. Just add your >> network to the server's /usr/local/etc/sane.d/saned.conf and then >> add an entry for the server to the /usr/local/etc/sane.d/net.conf >> on each of the clients. > > > This is the kind of stuff we should be adding to the Handbook section on > scanners. Thank you for posting it! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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