I'm running the latest version of Crunchbang 64-bit on a Dell E5510 notebook.Installing my printer and scanner worked fine - I just used an existing Ubuntu tutorial. However, scanning without starting Simple-Scan as sudo produces an error message. My main account is listed as part of the group scanner, according to the output of less /etc/group. To my limited knowledge, this should suffice, shouldn't it? What more steps are necessary in order to run simple-scan without sudo?Thanks in advance.
Crunchbang: Can't use simple-scan without administrator rights
permissions;scanner
I found similar question asked on SU. Also this Ubuntu how-to could be useful. And there's a bug regarding permissions to access a scaner.Summarizing this sources:Add saned to the group which owns your scanner device: sudo adduser saned scanner. Note that device may be owned by different group, so use sane-find-scanner to determine the device and ls -al /dev/bus/usb/XXX/XXX to identify the group. Then add saned to this group.There's not very secure way to run saned as root.Add this line to /etc/rc.local (before exit 0): chmod -R a+w /dev/bus/usbEdit/create the following file: /etc/xinetd.d/saned:service saned {socket_type = streamserver = /usr/sbin/sanedprotocol = tcpuser = rootgroup = rootwait = nodisable = no}Edit /etc/default/saned:RUN_AS_USER=rootand RUN=yesReboot.