On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 01:44:17PM +0000, Camale??n wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:23:57 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:37:15PM +0000, Camale??n wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:28:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >> > Okay, we're back in "routine administration" territory. > >> > > >> > adding myself to group 'scanner' > >> > > >> > /etc/group:scanner:x:111:hplip,saned,jroth > >> > /etc/gshadow:scanner:!::hplip,saned,jroth > >> > > >> > and then 'newgrp scanner' leads to a correct result for scanimage > >> > --list-devices > >> > > >> > Will that be the new status quo when I reboot, or do I have to do > >> > something to make it permanent? > >> > >> (...) > >> > >> If you manually added the "scanner" group and also (manually) added > >> yourself to that group this has to be consistent between reboots, of > >> course. But I wonder why is that the "scanner" group was not present in > >> your system by default :-? > > > > I didn't express myself clearly, I added myself to the scanner group, I > > didn't add the group. > > Ah, then the scanner group was already present (that's correct) but your > user should have been added to it automatically (I guess), at least > that's how it is on my system (wheezy) and I have no TWAIN device > attached to the netbook (no scanner, multi-function device, dsc camera... > nothing).
How could the sane package install scripts know which users are to be included in the scanner group? Regards, Joel > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/juot7h$ot7$4...@dough.gmane.org > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120726033139.GA18013@sprite
