Bug 125612

Summary:	works for root only
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Igor Mozetic <igor.mozetic>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2	CC:	twaugh
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OS:	Linux
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Description Igor Mozetic 2004-06-09 12:32:39 UTC

Description of problem:
Scanner detection (USB, UMAX Astra 3400) works for root only.
Probably just permissions problem, but its not obvious
what should one do. Adding users to a group (which?)...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sane-backends-1.0.13-7
xsane-gimp-0.92-10
sane-frontends-1.0.11-4
xsane-0.92-10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run xsane as non-root user
2. Pop-up window: no device availabe
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


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Comment 1 Igor Mozetic 2004-06-10 13:38:14 UTC

The problem is apparently in the hotplug tool.
Namely, one can "chmod a+rw /proc/bus/usb/003/002"
after finding the file name with sane-find-scanner,
and xsane works for non-root as well.
However, this must be done after each reboot, see
http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2004-06-24 16:34:10 UTC

We ship a hotplug script for SANE: you can power off and on the device
(or unplug/re-insert the USB connector) to achieve what you want. 
This needs to be solved properly, and I'm told that udev will
eventually do that.

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2004-06-25 06:38:53 UTC

I think, this is solved better by HAL, as scanners do not identify
themselves easily as "scanner"s. Udev needs strict "rules"
(identifier) to e.g. symlink a device node to /dev/scanner.

Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2004-07-12 12:59:53 UTC

also pam_console is good for that...

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2004-07-12 13:36:12 UTC

No, it isn't -- that's what we use right now.

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2004-07-12 15:19:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121511 ***

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:04:00 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.