On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 20:23 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
A hotplug event a log-in (and after pam_console has done its stuff)
seems to be what's needed, yes.
IMO setting ownership to who's at the console is not the correct
paradigm. In many cases the scanner is a shared resource ... like a
printer. Consider:
http://www.sane-project.org/man/saned.1.html
IMO the best solution for now is to set the device permissions to be
world read/write.