Using a scanner (USB) as user and not as root

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> One more problem: there should be a quote at the end of the last line.
>> 
>> attach 100 {
>> 	device-name "ugen[0-9].[0-9]";
>> 	match "vendor" "0x04b8";
>> 	match "product" "0x010a";
>> 	action "usb_devaddr=`echo $device-name | sed 's#^ugen##'` && \
>> 		chown root:saned /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.* && \
>> 		chmod 0660 /dev/usb/${usb_devaddr}.*"
>
> Shouldn't there be a ; at the end of the action line also? Because every line 
> above ends with it too. I also ended the total attach 100 statement with }; 
> because that seems the case in the rest of devd.conf.

Yes, sorry about that.  Next time I'm going to post the whole section 
instead of trying to edit it down.

> To see if these changes work I'll have to reboot later because I'm updating 
> my ports, and this can take a while...

There's '/etc/rc.d/devd restart', but it's probably not something to 
experiment with during updates.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA