Solved: Re: Automatically grant user permission to use USB scanner in F11 x86_64
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:09:47 -0700
stan <gryt2(a)q.com> wrote:
Is there an elegant way to allow a
regular user to run xsane for a USB scanner? That works even when
it is not present at boot but is hot plugged later?
The solution is hal. It seems that libsane has been removed from
/etc/udev/rules.d and everything is in
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/19-libsane.fdi
When I added a rule for the vendor with the id of the device to that
file, I was then able to access it as a normal user.
There were problems with using the device through xsane, but it could
scan. I think this is because the device is not officially supported
and I'm only piggybacking on another version.
It worked after unplugging and plugging as well.