Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:05:43AM +0000, Camale??n wrote:

(...)

>> I'd say this could come from udev and its rules because a default
>> Debian install adds your user to the "scanner" group (you can view the
>> groups you pertain by running "id").
> 
> Okay, we're back in "routine administration" territory.
> 
> adding myself to group 'scanner'
> 
> /etc/group:scanner:x:111:hplip,saned,jroth
> /etc/gshadow:scanner:!::hplip,saned,jroth
> 
> and then 'newgrp scanner' leads to a correct result for scanimage
> --list-devices
> 
> Will that be the new status quo when I reboot, or do I have to do
> something to make it permanent?

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If you manually added the "scanner" group and also (manually) added 
yourself to that group this has to be consistent between reboots, of 
course. But I wonder why is that the "scanner" group was not present in 
your system by default :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón