Comment 24 for bug 205496

"The solution is to add your user to the scanner group, then find what
bus your USB scanner is on with "lsusb" (you get a number like 002:004),
then

sudo chown root:scanner /dev/bus/usb/002/004 (or what ever the numbers are)"

User WAS in the scanner group, and I have added the latest updates available for Hardy Beta, still have to user "sudo xsane". I thought that was not a problem, until I went to work with a scanned image. Which is owned by root, of course. I can manipulate and print it via "sudo gimp", but I can't email it or put it on my website. I need to know how to change the permissions on the image file, or bbetter still, get the scanner working without sudo.