Just to be curious: the main problem seems to me, that the user
who does the scanning needs to be root. What if you'd use saned as
an intermediate? Your enduser sees a networked scanner on loopback
an does not need root permissions.
Or am I missing something?
ljm
Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
>
> Jochen,
>
> the only way you can get it to work is by making the programs that
> access the pio device (the frontends) SUID root:
>
> chown root xscanimage xsane scanimage
> chmod 4755 xscanimage xsane scanimage
>
> ... of course you have to provide the correct paths for the
> three programs.
>
> Karl Heinz
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:22:59PM -0500, Jochen Weiss wrote:
> > I got an old Epson ES300C parallel port scanner from a friend of mine and I
> > got
> > it to run under Mandrake 7.2 as root (which is not recommended and did
> > indeed do
> > same bad things to the program while running). So my question is:
> > How can i change the permissions on the pio 0x378 so that I can run it as
> > regular
> > user. This is easy to solve for a SCSI port since its a device, but the pio
> > doesn't use a device...
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated....
> >
> > Jochen Weiss
> >
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