From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 13:13:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC0037B422 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01471 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:13:18 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3B018DDC.AD690D92@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:13:16 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: umax astra scsi scanner References: <01a201c0dcd4$ab3f3e40$0300a8c0@oracle> <014201c0dcdd$29253000$0100a8c0@ilya> <3B00ABA9.C8F1CAA4@gmx.de> <029e01c0dcf9$ad28bef0$0100a8c0@ilya> <3B0112E1.C22ED41C@gmx.de> <3B012010.8E22FE1B@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > thank you very much. that worked > > > but do u know how can i access scanner as regular user? > > > i can access it as root through /dev/pass4, but not as usual user. i tried > > > to chown /dev/pass4 to user by to no avail > > > > create a group "scanner" and add all users, who should be able to > > scan. > > > > su-2.04# grep scanner /etc/group > > scanner:*:70:LoginNameOfUserToScan > > > > Then > > chown root.scanner /dev/pass4 > > And, of course: > chmod g+rw /dev/pass4 And for the sake of complete archives: To be able to use the scanner as normal user, it is necessary to ln -s /dev/pass4 /dev/scanner Don't know, why root is able to recognize the scanner on /dev/pass4, but normal users aren't. Strange. Thanks for the hint Ilya. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message