Your request / output of lshal and getfacl /dev/sg2

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Hi folks,
one last question. As of now hal allows access to anything on the SCSI bus 
that announces itself to be a "scanner". However I know that there are 
devices around being scanners but announcing themselves as 
being "processors". For now, I did something like that:

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    <!-- SCSI-SUBSYSTEM -->
    <match key="info.category" string="scsi_generic">
      <!-- Generic SCSI Scanner device -->
      <match key="@info.parent:scsi.type" string="scanner">
        <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">scanner</append>
      </match>
      <!-- Hewlett-Packard SCSI Scanner+Faxdevice -->
      <match key="@info.parent:scsi.model" string="C7670A">
        <match key="@info.parent:scsi.type" string="processor">
          <match key="@info.parent:scsi.vendor" string="HP">
            <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">scanner</append>
          </match>
        </match>
      </match>
    </match>
    <!-- USB-SUBSYSTEM -->
    <match key="info.subsystem" string="usb">
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the "simpler" way would be to treat anything that announces itself 
as "processor" (@info.parent:scsi.type) as scanner, too.
However this might open up access to devices not being scanners to regular 
users, and, what is even worse, those devices would be assigned hal 
attributes that belong to scanners, only.

Any inputs highly appreciated,
thank you in advance,
take care



Dieter

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-----------------------------------------------------------Am Dienstag, 6. 
Januar 2009 14:34:02 schrieb Dieter Jurzitza:
> Hi Danny,
> ack - well, more or less. I highly appreciate remote access to devices and
> it is strange that this should not be possible. In consequence one would
> have to forbid access to any local device as default? - I think remote
> maintenance is a very normal issue - well, in the case of a scanner I could
> use the net backend, but anyway.
>
> Mabe an option going into /etc/sysconfig ? Just for the wishlist :-)
>
> And, as long as openSUSE specifies autologin as default for kde at least,
> this approach is entirely ineffective if the remote login goes to the
> default user (I personally never activeate autologin and it is weird to me
> that one would set this per default, but just my 2 cents here).
>
> Anyway it is not consistent for the moment. If I log in locally once and
> then log out again, remote access remains possible through SSH.
>
> Take care
>
>
>
>
> Dieter Jurzitza