how to start scanner as mortal user

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Ranjan Maitra wrote:

> I have an old HP PSC2410 scanner/fax/printer which I have managed to get
> started all right upon installing hplip hpijs libsane-hpaio hplip-libs
> hplip-common (some may be superfluous) and using the text-based
> interactive setup. I also installed xsane.
>
> I am most interested in the scanner: I managed to get this working
> just fine, but only under root (sudo xsane). Is there a way to get this
> started as a mortal user (little me)?

I had the same problem with centos.
Maybe this will help:
http://www.mail-archive.com/centos@centos.org/msg96371.html

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