non-root scanner

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,
Thanks I'll try that, but sounds like a rather bad solution.
Still, if it works...

/Søren

thtde wrote:
> I also had a scanner which was connected to the parallel port. The
> driver doesn't use a device in /dev but uses some methods which are
> only possible as root. The only possible way is using saned for network
> access (man saned, you have to configure it to run as root!) and using
> the net backend in your application.
> 
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