-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: libsane Version: 1.0.15-4 Severity: critical Tags: security
Updating to 2.6.10 i found that the scanner module is removed from kernel. So sane cannot be used anymore as normal user as only root can write to the files on /proc/bus/usb/* With 2.4 it was no problem as sane was reading /dev/usb/scanner*. This devices could be set to permit several users or groups to full access. The /proc is a virtual FS and morover /proc/bus/usb is a own virtual FS. So setting the permissions for one device not work over a reboot. And morover you have to permit access to all devices as you cannot know which will be the scanner. I'm not realy sure if this can be handled by sane as the issue that the scanner module is removed from the kernel makes to brake all scanners on usb. (Except you scan as root which is not prefered and xsane also complain about...) But if sane should work also on newer systems with kernel 2.6.* it should be a way to handle this. By the way, the scanner module was removed from kernel in version 2.6.3: 2004-02-27: linux-2.6.3/Documentation/usb/scanner.txt: removal; USB scanner driver has been removed - -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE) Versions of packages libsane depends on: ii adduser 3.59 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.41 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgphoto2-2 2.1.5-2 The gphoto2 digital camera library ii libieee1284-3 0.2.8-2 Cross-platform library for paralle ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libusb-0.1-4 1:0.1.8-17 Userspace USB programming library ii makedev 2.3.1-75 Creates device files in /dev ii sane-utils 1.0.15-4 API library for scanners -- utilit - -- no debconf information - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQeJ/VJ+OKpjRpO3lAQKjGQf/R8YIsEn8aO1LF+8h/KzcWdXm4TaViEmk HM0sF3OWrQ2L10agM3K0+qlN/JKOxcj3yxNNZldY+8Rj0xDvgsC/GiXHKbCG8RPs tJ2N8jNB0MC3ZgjvuVFDcQhvxn89GPZunGAUJyhJffDUMtPkqJQci+Ok1+WmrqLF 0jH0oepxFEpBVKPP0d3YcTz8SpEO5DynAbFVObAFT4/A8l/JN7kwO1FmSWmP3SCw 1B4JXrF+G6kH7pOtDcufWNqFsW6JNLJoPRKxCKVDvWwOEYVPntjaz0rL7T6Hi3T4 YPO13SqU3SYhZJAE71UF0FnVQSJ9nTsXaxg8jEio+qh+SA0527ETCg== =GLIh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
