Re: Epson Perfection 1240U USB scanner device not found

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:31:40 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 01:44:17PM +0000, Camale??n wrote:

(...)

>> > 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?

If I were a bash routine O:-) I would simply look at the "/etc/group" 
file. 

Anyway, every user (already created or to be created) is added by default 
to the scanner group because of the pattern used to set this ("/etc/
adduser.conf").

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón