primax: How to set up permissions for pxscan
Subject:
Re: How to set up permissions for pxscan
From:
Christian Ordig ####@####.####
Date:
29 Dec 2002 18:10:20 -0000
Message-Id: <20021229185833.A13902@odin.chris.com>
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:48:39AM -0500, Marek Zawadzki wrote:
> I'm using pxscan v.04 by Gustaf Kroling with my D9600. It works fine.
> How do I set the permissions up, so non-root users can use the scanner,
> without setuid-ing pxscan?
> I've tried various permissions on /dev/lp*, dev/parport/* etc. but it
> didn't work out. I'm not familiar with routines used by pxscan to operate
> on ports, neither. I'm using RH 8.0.
the program uses direct port IO (not via device files in /dev/) and to do
this you need root priviledges. sorry.
--
Christian Ordig
Germany
