Fprint access as normal user

twinkers · 09-30-2008, 12:20 PM

I'm trying to get fprint to run as normal user. As root everything works so I guess it's a group setting. The user is a memeber of the plugdev group and everything else for the user seems to work as it should.
Any clues on what group this user needs to be in for fprint to work?

Regards

powadha · 09-30-2008, 01:14 PM

Been there,

Make sure the user is in plugdev but I guess you are. You have to change the permissions of the usb folder to allow access to the plugdev group with the command:
# chgrp -R plugdev /dev/bus/usb/
After that I ran into the problem of fprint giving the error: error loading enrolled prints. Turns out the folder /home/USER/.fprint has the wrong owner. Correct this with the command:
# chown -R USER /home/user/.fprint

For me it worked fine after that.