yes. the ls looks like this: crw-rw-rw- 1 magikeye root 180, 48 Aug 30 19:31 scanner0 magikeye is my username On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:51:33 -0500 Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@khk.net> wrote: > Do you have read and write access to the device file /dev/usb/scanner0 ? >