One of my computers does not ask for sudo when I open X-sane and it asks for what scanner to use. The rest do. I can not remember what I did to make it not need sudo on this PC.

@hellomiakoda run sudo visudo to edit your sudoers file (/etc/sudoers), it's not recommended to edit it in any other way, change the editor it uses with EDITOR=nano sudo -E visudo (replace nano with your favorite)

@noiob What am I editing in here? On the machine that does NOT ask for sudo to use the scanner, I see nothing in here that stands out as being why I can scan without entering sudo password

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@hellomiakoda hm, I've only ever added commands to it to allow running them with sudo without entering a password, if you can't see anything it's probably somewhere else, sorry

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