Comment 12 for bug 1080787

Hi all, Im far from an expert at this but my HP5300c scanner failed to work after upgrading to 14.04 from 12.04 and this is how I got it working:
edit file /etc/default/saned as root (after making a backup).

change the line
# Set to yes to start saned
RUN=no
to RUN=yes

change the line
RUN_AS_USER=saned
to RUN_AS_USER=<yourusername>

substitute yourusername for your login name

after the next reboot scanner worked perfectly although sane-find-scanner still finds no scanner, for whatever reason.

There may be some security problem with this approach, maybe someone can give advice in this area?