sane config files [was [sane-devel] Infrared channel]]

[m. allan noah]

>> ... i personally dont have much problem with users being able
>> to plug scanner into machine and make it
>> work without root permissions ...
>
> Admins don't like it when normal users can plug in whatever
> hardware and make it work.
> Admins want to be able to define what the normal users are
> allowed to do and what not.

you should say 'the average admin', because i for one (an abnormal admin) 
dont care.

> But it is perfect when - as Oliver said - there is a SANE admin
> authentication in the frontend (like the CUPS admin authentication
> for http://localhost:631/admin) and root can define who is a SANE admin
> (by default it is only root but root can add any user to be a SANE admin).

i dont see much way to make this happen, sane does not really have the 
infrastructure of CUPS, since no daemon is required to be running in sane.

perhaps a system like pam could be exploited?

allan