Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 01:44:17PM +0000, Camale??n wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:23:57 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:37:15PM +0000, Camale??n wrote:
> >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> >> > 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?
> >>
> >> (...)
> >>
> >> 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 :-?
> >
> > I didn't express myself clearly, I added myself to the scanner group, I
> > didn't add the group.
>
> Ah, then the scanner group was already present (that's correct) but your
> user should have been added to it automatically (I guess), at least
> that's how it is on my system (wheezy) and I have no TWAIN device
> attached to the netbook (no scanner, multi-function device, dsc camera...
> nothing).
How could the sane package install scripts know which
users are to be included in the scanner group?
Regards,
Joel
> Greetings,
>
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