[Gllug] Scanner problem

[Andrew Richardson]

On Wednesday 17 October 2001 08:27, you wrote:
> >I have successfully hooked up my old Epson GT5000 scsi scanner under
> > RedHat 7.1 but can only manage to run it as root.  When I try xsane as a
> > user it comes up with a 'no devices detected' error message.
>
> It's the permissions on your generic SCSI devices, /dev/sg*. You need
> read and write access to whichever one your scanner is attached to.
> Rather than open them up completely, I created a scanner group, and
> gave that group read/write access, and made xscanimage setgid scanner.
>
> Tet
>
Thanks for the advice.  Only problem is I cannot figure how to assign the 
device /dev/sga to the scanner group or vice-versa.  Excuse my ignorance but 
could you possibly give me some idiot proof instructions.

Cheers

Andrew

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