[sane-devel] Problem in setting up Xsane (problem half solved)

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Sat, 1 Mar 2003 11:58:31 +0100


Hi,

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:49:34PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Further to my late posting as at foot of this email.  New discovery, 
> quite strange;
> 
> 
> 1) login as 'user'
> 
> # chmod -c 777 /dev/sg1
> mode of `/dev/sg1' changed to 0777 (rwxrwxrwx)
> 
> I am allowed to change the permission even without issuing the command
> # su
> # password
> 
> After logout and re-login to the same 'user'
> 
> # ls -l /dev/sg1
> crw-------    1 satimis  root      21,   1 Apr 11  2002 /dev/sg1
> 
> permission cancelled

Your distribution has set up setting permissions automatically for
you when you are logged in locally. Isn't it nice :-)

This should be documented in your distribution's manual.

Bye,
  Henning