Re: xsane and root permissions

[Andreas Beck <lists%mode42.net@localhost>]

Hi,
put your user in the staff group and test it with chmod 777 /dev/ss0 
(only for testing, chmod 777)
If its not working, its no rights Problem.

Andreas

BERTRAND Joël schrieb:
>     Hello,
>
>     I use a venerable Agfa scanner 1236S (SCSI) on a Digital PWS500au 
> workstation running NetBSD 8 (8.99.1 kernel). This scanner is known as 
> /dev/ss0 and runs as expected with root privileges.
>
>     If I try to use xsane (or sane in CLI) as regular user, xsane 
> doesn't see my scanner. Of course, I have checked that permissions of 
> /dev/ss0 are root:staff rw-rw-rw-. I suppose I have forgotten 
> something, but I'm unable to find a solution.
>
>     Any idea ?
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     JB