[CentOS] scanner only works in su mode

bmcclure keepertoad at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 26 10:16:05 UTC 2013



On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 00:14 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > At Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:34:51 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> > The proper cure for this is to add yourself to the group that udev puts the
> > device in.  Look in /etc/udev/rules.d.  Under CentOS 5 with hplip3-common
> > installed, this would be 55-hpmud.rules.
> 
> I'm running centos 6.
> Googling tells me the corresponding centos 6 directory is /lib/udev/rules.d .
> There are no files with 55 or hp in their names,
> but there are 39 with the string usb .
> Where should I be looking?
> 

Sorry I'm late to this thread.  Just adding unprivileded users to
scanner group worked for me with HP 72xx MFP and CentOS 6.x.  YMMV.

Cheers,
B.J.



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