Bug#960593: hplip: Requires login as root instead of as user
Package: hplip
Version: 3.18.12+dfsg0-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
By default, the script asking for root priviledge in hplip ("/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py")
asks for root privilege only. Most debian user use "sudo" and this behaviour is as easy to fix :
sed -ri "s|^( +'debian': ')su(',)|\1sudo\2|" "/usr/share/hplip/base/password.py"
If you don't do that, people who did not set up a root password (ie. installing though calamares
or via a preseed jumping this step) will get stuck.
I recognize it's not a proper fix, one should check if sudo binary exist and just use it or use su
instead... If I did know a tiny bit of python I'd attach a patch :(
The bug I'm talking about is already repported upstream there 3 YEARS AGO
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/1660361>
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