Help with HAL, Consolekit and scanners

Scott James Remnant scott at canonical.com
Tue Jun 3 05:49:48 PDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:16 +0000, Sergio Callegari wrote:

> A) How can I disable the current ACL creation, so that the current default user
> is not by default allowed to access the scanner?
> 
System -> Administration -> Authorisations

Select "Directly access scanners" in the list on the left.

Click Edit for "Implicit Authorisations".

Change "Active Console" to "No2

> B) How can I make sure that HAL makes the scanner owned by group scanner, so
> that saned can access it?
> 
Follow the first two steps above:

Click "Grant" for "Explicit Authorisations".

Select the user that you run saned as ("Beneficiary") and click Grant.

Scott
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