On a fresh system, this scanner is created as rw rw r root root. However, xsane requires write access to run as a regular user. If I change it to rw rw rw, it's fine Either group ownership should be a group to which scanner users can be added or else "other" should be changed to rw.
Dupe. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16253 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE