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<h1>Re: GIMP/SANE PERMISSIONS</h1>
<b>Rob Komar</b> (<a href="mailto:robk@physics.ubc.ca"><i>robk@physics.ubc.ca</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sun, 21 Nov 1999 19:14:38 -0800 (PST)</i>
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On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Douglas Gilbert wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Redhat 6.0 defaults "600" permissions on sg devices. Therefore</i><br>
<i>&gt; without read permissions, normal users cannot open sg devices. </i><br>
<i>&gt; One of the first questions I asked to a Linux newsgroup was </i><br>
<i>&gt; why a logical read operation such as scanning a document needed</i><br>
<i>&gt; write permissions. From memory the answer was something like</i><br>
<i>&gt; that that is just the way things are. Should it be?</i><br>
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You're writing to the device when you give the scanner instructions<br>
(like `start the scan'). I guess it might be feasible to only read<br>
from the device if you could operate the scanner using front panel<br>
buttons, but I don't know for sure.<br>
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Rob Komar<br>
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