man sane-usb you need to change perms in /proc/bus/usb/ or in /dev/bus/usb, these are usually manage by udev.
allan On 4/25/08, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42 at yahoo.com> wrote: > I recently purchased an EPSON CX7400 All-In-One and it prints and copies > great. Scanning has been a problem. I am running Debian Etch and have > sane and xsane installed. Until this evening I could not get sane to > recognize that I had a scanner installed at all. I'm not sure what > changed that, but it now recognizes the scanner if I run scanimage, or > xscanimage as root, but NOT if I run as a normal user. Running xsane as > root gives me warnings that this is not a good idea. I would much > rather run as a normal user. I have added scanner0 to /dev/.static/dev > (that is probably what made it start to work at all) and I have changed > its ownership to root:scanner with permissions of 664. I am in the > scanner group, so I expected to be able to use it as non-root. Do I > need to reboot for this to take effect. What else do I need to do to > run xscanimage as non-root? > > All help will be appreciated. > > -- > Marc Shapiro > mshapiro_42 at yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
