scanner only as root

Brian Puccio brian at brianpuccio.net
Wed Nov 24 22:08:39 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 22:48 +0100, Soren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi
> I just managed to get my old parport scanner to work with sane. The 
> problem is that it only works as root, so I have to give a password and 
> accept a warning from xsane before I can scan.
> Is there a way to get around this?

Sure, just add the user you want to be able to scan to the group scanner
and you will have the correct permissions without needing a password.





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