On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:20:14 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote: > With these changes xsane started with no difficulty but the man page for > sane-usb notes that the permission change will be lost on re-booting. I > have not yet puzzled out how to make it permanent. Using hotplug is the only solution to this. http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/libusb.html Hopefully that will get you most the way there. Brad .