devfs and scanner

Glyn Millington glyn at millingtons.org
Thu May 22 21:34:08 UTC 2008


Sébastien Morand <seb.morand at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> a would like to up my scanner automatically ofr regular user, so I
> create theses lines in devfs.conf:
> link	uscanner0	scanner
> perm	uscanner0	0660
> own	uscanner0	root:scanner
>
> I create the group scanner and add the user in it, but it doesn't
> work. When I plug the scanner I get:
> $ ls -l /dev/uscanner0
> crw-r--r--  1 root  operator    0, 124 May 22 21:25 /dev/uscanner0
>
> And what I would like is:
> crw-rw-r--  1 root  scanner    0, 124 May 22 21:25 /dev/uscanner0
>
> How can I achieve this?

Is the uscanner0 device  also dealt with in /etc/devfs.rules ?

atb

Glyn


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