How can I make my scanner permissions permanent?

Heike C. Zimmerer nospam08q2 at gmx.net
Wed May 6 14:14:38 UTC 2009


Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Try:
>> 1. System/Administration/Users and Groups
>> 2. Select your account (requires your password to unlock)
>> 3. User Privileges tab
>> 4. Put a check in everything you want privilege to (scanner is there)
>>
>> -rich
>
> There is no scanner option, either as a User Privilege or as a Group.

I do have a scanner group and privilege ...

> I was hoping someone with some knowledge of udev could help me figure
> out what lines would be missing from the Brother installation....

Just copy the line mentioned in the Brother document to
e.g. 51-my-libusb.rules.  This way it will be always executed after the
original rule.   And note: this does not only enable the scanner for all
users, but all other libusb devices too.

Heike





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