Re: sane-backends permission problems

Maurice McCarthy <manselton@gmail.com> wrote:

> Add your user to the operator group.
> Regards

Hi Maurice,

My user is already in the operator group and for that matter in wheel
group. However, your email made me poke little bit more into this issue.
These are the changes that coused the "problem" for me personally.

On 6.6 stable

OpenBSD atlas.int.autonlab.org 6.6 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64

atlas# ls -l /dev/usb0
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 61, 0 Oct 22 2019 /dev/usb0

atlas# ls -l /dev/ugen0*
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 0 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.00
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 1 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.01
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 2 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.02
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 3 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.03
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 4 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.04
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 5 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.05
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 6 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.06
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 7 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.07
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 8 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.08
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 9 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.09
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 10 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.10
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 11 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.11
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 12 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.12
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 13 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.13
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 14 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.14
crw-rw---- 1 root wheel 63, 15 Oct 22 2019 /dev/ugen0.15



On 6.7 stable

minix# ls -l /dev/usb0
crw-r----- 1 root wheel 61, 0 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/usb0

minix# ls -l /dev/ugen0*
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 0 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.00
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 1 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.01
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 2 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.02
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 3 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.03
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 4 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.04
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 5 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.05
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 6 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.06
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 7 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.07
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 8 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.08
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 9 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.09
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 10 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.10
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 11 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.11
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 12 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.12
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 13 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.13
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 14 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.14
crw------- 1 root wheel 63, 15 Jun 8 22:16 /dev/ugen0.15


The device nodes' permissions have changed. I am too busy to go now
through CVS commits to pin point the date and the reason.

Cheers,
Predrag