[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#522848: Bug#522848: hplip: scanning only working as root

[Mark Purcell]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 03:02:29 Anders Boström wrote:
> eckert:~# ll /dev/bus/usb/007/003
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 189, 770 Apr  7 18:49 /dev/bus/usb/007/003
> eckert:~#
>
> And I understand your lp group question now.
>
> But this is most unlogical, that you have to be a member of the lp
> group in order to scan, but not in order to print. And that being a
> member of the scanner group isn't sufficient in order to scan.

Yes I know it seems a bit crazy.  But I would anticipate that while you can 
print, you can't access the functions from the hp systray - ink levels, jobs 
etc.

For a while we did try to setup that you had to be a member of the lp group 
for printing functions and scanner group for printing+scanning functions, but 
there was too much overlap, like ink levels.

So with 3.9.2 we have tried to standardise on the lp group for everything.  
But that is still causing confusion.

We also dabbled with the plugdev group for access to plugged in devices, but 
that was causing confusion too.

What I would to be able to do is have the console user have full functional 
access to plugged in multi-function devices.  But I haven't been able to work 
the udev rules to accomplish.

Mark

Ideally I would like to have the console user by default gets access.
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