Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 06:42:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permissions problem for sane Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508060632230.39988@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk> References: <20150806104335.GA27748@ithaca.acampbell.uk>
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On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Anthony Campbell wrote: > My first posting to this list. I've been using 10.1 for a couple of > months on my Thinkpad T60 without problems. > > Trying to get my Epson 1650 scanner to work, I found it was only > detected as root. It's at /dev/usb:/dev/ugen0.2 > > After googling, I found instructions on Freebsd manual for 8.7, which > involved creating a usb group and making/modifying /etc/devfs.rules. > This didn't work. > > I then added myself to the wheel and operator groups but again no > result. > > Should I modify the permissions on /dev/ugen0.2? That will work temporarily. The scanner might not always appear at 0.2, though. A similar way of doing this is to make your normal user a member of the operator group, and assign all USB devices to that group with /etc/devfs.rules: add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group operator
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