Bug 157770

Summary: USB scanner not recognized a boot time
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Mark Goldberg <goldber>
Component: sane-backendsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact:
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Version: 4.0CC: tmraz
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Hardware: i386   
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Bug Depends On: 157844, 157845    
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Patch for /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner none

Description Mark Goldberg 2005-05-15 00:49:42 UTC 
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Description of problem:
At boot time, no one is logged into the console, so permissions are not set correctly by /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner. It is necessary to unplug and replug in the scanner before it can be used by root only. It is suggested to change /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner similar to the attached patch (after creating a group scanner consisting of selected users) to allow group scanner to access the scanner. This is very similar to bug #122595.

The patch changes two things. It sets the default owner to root if noone is logged into the console, which is always the case at boot time, and it allows selected users other than root to use the scanner. It works at boot time and also if the scanner is disconnected and reconnected.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sane-backends-1.0.14-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the system.
2. Attempt to use the scanner as a regular user.

  

Actual Results:  Scanner is not available.

Expected Results:  Scanner should be available.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Mark Goldberg 2005-05-15 00:54:00 UTC 
Created attachment 114390 [details]
Patch for /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner
Comment 2 Mark Goldberg 2005-05-15 00:56:59 UTC 
Sorry about the long lines in the comments. I will use returns in
the text entry box next time.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2005-05-16 14:09:17 UTC 
I think this is unrelated to bug #122595.

Instead, I think this is bug #121511.  Work required:

1. pam package: add argument to pam_console_apply to restrict to specific files
   (as in pam-0.78-2)

2. hotplug package: fix usb remove events (as in hotplug-2004_04_01-10)

3. change libusbscanner script to match (as in sane-backends-1.0.15-8)

Your own patch is insufficient to fix the problem, as it mandates further set-up
on the part of the user (setting up a 'scanner' group etc).
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2005-05-16 14:10:45 UTC 
I have filed bug #157844 and bug #157845 and set them blocking this bug.
Comment 11 Tim Waugh 2005-06-29 13:31:34 UTC 
This issue is not severe enough to warrant an updated package on its own. 
However, future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases will contain the fix.