On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Karl Heinz Kremer wrote: > Henning is right, the EPSON backend does not fork off a reader process. > That the root user can scan is a sure sign that there is something > wrong with the permissions. From your directory listing it looks > like the scanimage process should do a set group ID to the "scanner" > group, which does have read and write access to the device. > > Are you sure that the user that is running this program is a member > of this group?
No, the user is not a member of this group. The program (xsane etc.) is setgid to this group. I tried adding myself to the group and that didn't make any difference. Best regards, Johan Bengtsson -- http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~elijah/