Yes, that is what I meant by physically logged in. You shouldn't need to be in the scanner group (or the lp group) in that case.
If you remove yourself from both of those groups, does this stop working? If so, what is the output of "sudo scanimage -L"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to sane-backends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890464 Title: Can not scan as user Status in sane-backends package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: # Description I can not scan as user using software like simple-scan or xsane. If I run xsane and simple-scan with sudo, I can use my scanner. It seems to be a permission issue # Step to reproduce 1. Start xsane or simple-scan as user 2. xsane and simple-scan fail to scan, "device is not connected" 3. Start xsane or simple-scan with sudo 4. It works, you can scan # Infos xubuntu 20.04 HP Deskjet 2540 All-in-One Printer antoine@Talos:~$ apt show sane-utils Package: sane-utils Version: 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 antoine@Talos:~$ apt show libsane Package: libsane Version: 1.0.29-0ubuntu5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1890464/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
