[sane-devel] How do I scan as a normal user?

[Marc Shapiro]

I recently purchased an EPSON CX7400 All-In-One and it prints and copies 
great.  Scanning has been a problem.  I am running Debian Etch and have 
sane and xsane installed.  Until this evening I could not get sane to 
recognize that I had a scanner installed at all.  I'm not sure what 
changed that, but it now recognizes the scanner if I run scanimage, or 
xscanimage as root, but NOT if I run as a normal user.  Running xsane as 
root gives me warnings that this is not a good idea.  I would much 
rather run as a normal user.  I have added scanner0 to /dev/.static/dev 
(that is probably what made it start to work at all) and I have changed 
its ownership to root:scanner with permissions of 664.  I am in the 
scanner group, so I expected to be able to use it as non-root.  Do I 
need to reboot for this to take effect.  What else do I need to do to 
run xscanimage as non-root?

All help will be appreciated.

-- 
Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42 at yahoo.com