On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Oliver Rauch wrote:
> Mentore Siesto wrote:
>
> > BTW, as root I can't find the xsane binaries once built and installed...
> > I will learn how to modify the path. :-)
>
> Do not run xsane as root!
> Better set the permissions of the scanner device file.
>
> Bye
> Oliver
Be careful with this, because the SCSI devices are assigned to
/dev/sg* at boot time. If some of your SCSI devices are switched off
at boot time, your scanner device file (e.g. /dev/sg2) may then
be pointing to your hard disk.
Don't give world access rights to any of the /dev/sg* files!
My /dev/sg* belong to the group "disk", which has full access rights to
these files. And xsane and all other programs which must have access to
/dev/sg* are setgid disk.
Peter
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