how to start scanner as mortal user

[Ranjan Maitra]

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)?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

[Chris Kloiber]

Ranjan,

I have no experience with this, but have you tried adding your user to 
the xsane group?
It could be that simple... maybe.

On 10/17/2013 9:39 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)?
>
> Many thanks,
> Ranjan

[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/[e-mail]/msg96371.html

[Mike Wright]

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

how to start scanner as mortal user (SOLVED)

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 07:51:50 -0700 Mike Wright
 wrote:
> 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

Does it, thanks!

Ranjan

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