[NTLUG:Discuss] xscanimage

[Steve Baker]

bobby at wrennest.com wrote:
> 
> I have just installed a UMAX SCSI scanner. everything is working but I
> have to be root to run xscanimage.
> 
> What do I need to change to run xscanimage as a normal user?

You probably need to either change the permissions on the scanner
device in /dev or change the ownership of the xscanimage program
to 'root' then chmod it to set the SUID bit.

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