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

[m. allan noah]

Probably the scanner is not owned by scanner group. You need to check
the udev/hal/whatever rules and make sure this scanner is listed.

allan

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Dahlén
<erikthomasdahlen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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