how to start scanner as mortal user

Mike Wright mike.wright at mailinator.com
Fri Oct 18 14:51:50 UTC 2013


10/17/2013 06:39 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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)?
>


saned -a $USER



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