scanner only as root

albi albi at scii.nl
Wed Nov 24 22:36:02 UTC 2004


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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