On Saturday 04 April 2009 02:07:33 Jason Callough wrote: > This is a Debian specific issue Jason, Thanks for the pointer. I'm the Debian maintainer and am looking for a better way to setup the package so that so many users don't have this sort of issue. It seems to come down to the udev rules and which permissions are used. With the Debian package we have tried making various combinations of lp and scanner group, but in the end people get confused. Of course changing hasn't helped either. With the Debian package of 3.9.2 I have setup so that all members of the lp group get access to printers and scanners. (See Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/517297) The debian NEWS which is displayed when people install the package should be displaying the following message: hplip (3.9.2-2) unstable; urgency=low Access to the full functionality of hplip; ink check, toolbox, printing and scanning is now provided for members of the 'lp' group. The use of the scanner group is depreciated. -- Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:09:23 +1100 Ideally what I would like to see and I think the ubuntu folk have managed is to give the console user full access to all plugged in devices and the rest of users don't. In Debian we have also played with the plugdev group, but that has it's own set of problems as well. Mark
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