[Gllug] Scanner works only as root

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Fri Dec 30 16:51:08 UTC 2005


Henry Gilbert wrote:
> I've changed the permissions of all files in /proc/bus/usb/*
> and temporarily it works

I'm no SANE expert but I'd be _really_ surprised if this was what caused 
it to start working.  /proc differs so much across UNIXes that it would 
be a really terrible way to try to address a device across multiple 
platforms.

> but this might get lost on reboot.

s/might/will/



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