[sane-devel] root can scan, user not...

[Thomas Dahlén]

On 2015-10-20 15:34, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Thomas Dahlén writes:
>
>> hi,
>> i have a Fujitsu fi -7160 and the latest version of Debian jessie installed.
>> [snip]
>> thomas at ws2:~$ sudo chmod 666 /dev/bus/usb/003/002
>> [sudo] password for thomas:
>> thomas at ws2:~$ scanimage --device-name=fujitsu --format tiff >
>> testimage6.tiff
>> now it works but is there a better way to solve the problem permanently
>> than to chmod after start.
> Add yourself to the scanner group as below, log out and back in again.
>
>    sudo adduser thomas scanner
>
> Hope this helps,
I am already in the scanner group:
"I check /etc/group
lp:x:7:thomas
saned:x:120:
scanner:x:105:saned,thomas"

/Thomas

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