usb device permissions

[sciguy125]

Alright, I'm back with the all too common permission problem with USB scanners. I'm only able to use my scanner as root. I had it working in FC2, but I upgraded to 3 and it stopped working. I've tried adding the chmod stuff to libusbscanner again, but it didn't work. From what I can tell, libusbscanner isn't even running. When I turn my scanner on, it shows up in /proc/bus/usb/001/xxx, but there's no /dev/scanner. If I throw some extra commands into libusbscanner just to see what it does they don't do anything. (Specifically, I added "touch /foo") Any ideas?

[MikeEng]

I am having the same problem with permission access to the USB port on FC4. I made a group and gave the group access to the /proc/bus/usb directories (chgrp and chmod) and was able to run my program without being root. Once I rebooted the /proc/bus/usb directories were reset and again did not permission to open a USB port as a regular user.

Making a entry in fstab also does not seem to help.

Anyone have a solution to this.