scanner only as root
Soren Hauberg
soren at hauberg.org
Wed Nov 24 22:38:57 UTC 2004
Oh, I forgot to say. To be sure I rebooted the machine after I added the
user to the group but before changing the rights on /dev/lp0.
/Soren
albi wrote:
> Soren Hauberg wrote:
>
>> Before I start to create init scripts (this is ubuntu not gentoo :-) )
>> I have tried the following:
>> sudo chmod +rw /dev/lp0
>> sudo chown sh.scanner /dev/lp0 (my username is sh)
>> but xsane still doesn't find my scanner when I'm not root.
>
>
> after adding users to a group you should logout and log in again
> before these changes will 'be visible'
>
>
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