[sane-devel] can only scan as root

[m. allan noah]

This only works if the system knows that the device is a scanner. If
your device is newer than the udev rules or hal fdi files your system
uses, then it cannot manage the permissions.

allan

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Yury Tarasievich
<yury.tarasievich at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought all the modern distros have got the group named 'scandev', which
> is granted the access to the  scanner devices? The slackware has got it (it
> might be named a bit differently on your distro).
> You just add your username into the group , and re-login.
>
> -Yury
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