Scanner Permission

[cc7gir]

Hi,

I have a Brother-7440N and its works as a printer for all the normal users, but I would also like to get the scanner working, without needing root permissions.
I installed the drivers provided by Brother, and it only works as root.

$ sudo simple-scan

There is no scanner group that I can add my user to.
Is it correct to add the users who need the scanner to the lp group?

Thanks

EDIT1:
Simply creating a scanner group and adding users to it does not help.
I have a feeling I might need to write udev rules, but I have almost no knowledge of how it works and what it actually is.

Edit2:
Alright, I am fairly certain have to write a udev rule for this to work.

$ udevadm monitor

gives this when I turn the unit on and off:

monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent

KERNEL[4460.750468] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/usb/lp0 (usb)
KERNEL[4460.750510] remove /class/usb (class)
KERNEL[4460.750551] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[4460.750584] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1 (usb)
KERNEL[4460.750619] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2 (usb)
KERNEL[4460.750841] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2 (usb)
UDEV [4460.755083] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/usb/lp0 (usb)
UDEV [4460.755564] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2 (usb)
UDEV [4460.756349] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1 (usb)
UDEV [4460.759510] remove /class/usb (class)
UDEV [4460.759561] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 (usb)
UDEV [4460.765402] remove /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2 (usb)


KERNEL[4469.608217] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2 (usb)
KERNEL[4469.610570] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 (usb)
KERNEL[4469.615473] add /class/usb (class)
KERNEL[4469.615767] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/usb/lp0 (usb)
KERNEL[4469.615812] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1 (usb)
KERNEL[4469.615914] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2 (usb)
UDEV [4469.616377] add /class/usb (class)
UDEV [4469.696647] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2 (usb)
UDEV [4469.704955] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.2 (usb)
UDEV [4469.713270] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0 (usb)
UDEV [4469.719504] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.1 (usb)
UDEV [4469.720921] add /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/usb/lp0 (usb)

[pitonyak]

Many moons ago in a Fedora version far far away, I had a problem that only root was able to scan. I wrote the following shell script:

#!/bin/sh
# Set scanner vendor and product code as returned by lsusb.
scandevice=04b8:0122

scanner=`/sbin/lsusb -d $scandevice`
bus=`echo $scanner| sed -e s/Bus\ // -e s/\ Device.\*//`
device=`echo $scanner| sed -e s/Bus.\*Device\ // -e s/\:.\*//`
if [ "$bus" = "" ] | [ "$device" = "" ]
then
  echo "Unable to find scanner with vendor:product = $scandevice"
  exit 1
fi
chmod 666 /proc/bus/usb/$bus/$device
echo "Set access for $scandevice at /proc/bus/usb/$bus/$device"

Note that this will NOT work for you (even if it is a workable solution) because the scandevice of 0468:0122 is specific to the epson scanner that I used when I wrote this script. My initial recommendation is that you understand what this does (if you would like some hints, just ask). If you are able to produce usable results using this technique then you may be correct that you can write some rules to set things auto-magically. Realize that I am not an expert and I might send you down a very bad road. So, don't ask me how to directly modify the dev rules to do this. I did spend a few hours trying to fully understand how those magic rules function, but I never tackled them.