Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:50:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004281939070.3115@yokozuna.lan>
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Hi, I have a flatbed scanner (a HP ScanJet 4400c) that works with SANE (and Xsane), but only as root and I want to access it as user. After some googling and reading the handbook I copied the default file /etc/defaults/devfs.rules to /etc/ and added the lines: [system=5] add path 'ugen*' mode 0664 group usb add path 'usb/*' mode 0666 group usb and also made the group usb with root and the user in /etc/group. I also added devfs_system_ruleset="system" to /etc/rc.conf. After a reboot, USB and the scanner are still only accessible as root and not as user. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Marco -- Alan Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether machines can think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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