[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#483205: hplip: group scanner requirements.

Bruce Sass bmsass at shaw.ca
Sat Jul 12 18:56:47 UTC 2008


On Sat July 12 2008 08:32:49 am Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Mark Purcell wrote:
> > Thanks for the comment. The other suggestion is to use
> >    lp.plugdev
> >
> > But the downside of that is there is then no way to distinguish
> > between plugged in printers and other devices such as cameras.
>
> So the group ownership of a newly appearing device file is used to
> determine the type of plugged device (at least by certain apps)?

Not that I am aware of. Wouldn't such behaviour be buggy since groups 
are the most basic access control mechanism and sysadmin's often fiddle 
with group membership--which could easily break any app trying to use 
group membership in such a way.


- Bruce





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