From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frederic Crozat Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:31:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Patch: add ACL for parallel printer and scanner Message-Id: <1254933105.16942.20.camel@trinidad.mandrakesoft.com> List-Id: References: <1254904702.16942.11.camel@trinidad.mandrakesoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1254904702.16942.11.camel@trinidad.mandrakesoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Le mercredi 07 octobre 2009 =E0 13:13 +0200, Kay Sievers a =E9crit : > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:38, Frederic Crozat wrot= e: > > we are getting a lot of bug reports from users with parallel scanners > > which are not able to using xsane when not running as root. > > > > I suggest to apply attached patch to add ACL to parallel port to fix > > this issue. >=20 > This grants access to any device connected, to the parallel port, and > is not limited to printers or scanners, right? > KERNEL=3D"parport[0-9]*", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}=3D"1" Yes, since there is no possible autodetection on it. >=20 > Not sure if that is what we want that by default? Well, we need to set ACL on parallel port for scanners (not sure it is really needed for printers). --=20 Frederic Crozat Mandriva