Re: Re (2): Scanning in Wheezy.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 08:43:49AM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
>
> I glanced at http://wiki.debian.org/Scanner .
>
> root@dalton:/etc# adduser peter scanner
> Adding user `peter' to group `scanner' ...
> Adding user peter to group scanner
> Done.
>
> With no additional fuss, Xsane and the quiteinsane pluggin
> in gimp both find the scanner.
Ah ha!
>
> Strikes me as odd that most user applications and resources
> are available painlessly while a few need root to put the
> user in a group. More odd that scanner membership wasn't
> needed in Squeeze or I was removed from the scanner group
> in the grade from Squeeze to Wheezy. Is a previously
> ignored policy being enforced in Wheezy?
udev is supposed to handle these things now. I suspect older SCSI
scanners were left behind in the migration from HAL because there are so
few of us using them any more.
--
John
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