saned in root ???

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Hi All,

Okay, now this is "scary".

Both xsane and Simple Scan work locally.

I can not get saned to work, UNLESS, I edit /etc/group and add the following to root

root:x:0:saned

Without it, I get

$ xsane net:localhost:epkowa:interpreter:001:007
Access to resource has been denied

Now what am I doing wrong? Must saned have root privileges?

What are the security ramifications of doing this?

Many thanks, -T

Extra info:

I just caught this:

$ ps -eo pid,user,group,args --sort user | grep cups
 5005 root     root     /usr/sbin/cupsd -l

CUPS "is" running as root. So is it okay to add saned to root's group?

Response to Thomas Wood that will not fit in the comment's post:

$ scanimage -L
device `epkowa:interpreter:001:007' is a Epson Perfection V300 flatbed scanner

$ lsusb -s 001:007
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04b8:0131 Seiko Epson Corp. GT-F720 [GT-S620/Perfection V30/V300 Photo]

$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/007
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 189, 6 Mar 10 12:03 /dev/bus/usb/001/007

$ ls -l /usr/lib/udev/rules.d | grep -i sane
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root   3934 Mar  9 12:21 65-sane-backends.rules

$ grep lp /etc/group
lp:x:7:saned

The following temporarily fixes the issue (saned removed from root and a test to verify xsane net:localhost crashes before throwing the following):

   # chown saned.saned ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/007

But the scanner does not always mount on 001:007. Power it off and back on and it mounts on 001:008, etc.. and the chown has to be rethrown every reboot.