Permissions problem for sane

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:07:29PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:43:35AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>>> My first posting to this list. I've been using 10.1 for a couple of
>>> months on my Thinkpad T60 without problems.
>>>
>>> Trying to get my Epson 1650 scanner to work, I found it was only
>>> detected as root. It's at /dev/usb:/dev/ugen0.2
>>>
>>> After googling, I found instructions on Freebsd manual for 8.7, which
>>> involved creating a usb group and making/modifying /etc/devfs.rules.
>>> This didn't work.
>>>
>>> I then added myself to the wheel and operator groups but again no
>>> result.
>
>> 3) Activated this ruleset in /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>>     devfs_system_ruleset="custom_rules"
>>
>> 4) reboot to activate the new ruleset and rules.
>
> I suspect that these two steps are being missed by many.

devfs can be restarted with 'service devfs restart'.