xsane scanner

Discussion in 'Linux' started by alannah, Sep 2, 2008.

  1. alannah

    alannah

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    Hi All
    I have an HP photosmart scanner. I installed Xsane using 'add/remove software'
    my scanner works fine if I run as root but when I run as 'user' I get "failed to open device 'v4l:/dev/video0': invalid argument"

    my /dev/video0 looks like this:

    Code:
    crw-rw---- 1 user root 81, 0 2008-09-02 18:04 /dev/video0
    and I tried giving 'user' rwx permissions.

    any ideas what to do?

    Also, does anyone know how to password protect 'sudo su' (and keep everything working). It seems like such a gaping security hole to allow anyone to run anything as root ! :shock: TIA
     
    alannah, Sep 2, 2008
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