Re: Printing and Scanning only possible as root
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:15:50PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> there is a slight problem, which is also in debian-amd as in debian-32bit.
>
> The problem is: Scanning and printing (with cups) is only possible as root.
>
> I suppose, it is a problem with the the access rights, and something has tio
> be adjusted. Someone wrote about, that newer kernels do not allow normal
> users to access some /proc or /dev (I do not remember exactly).
>
> Can someone tell, what I habe to adjust ? Or maybe, if this is normal ?
I have never had a problem printing from any normal user using cups,
once it was configured. Scanning I believe may require adding the user
to the scanner group.
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Len Sorensen
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