Bug#960593: hplip: Requires login as root instead of as user

[Brendon Higgins <brendon@quantumfurball.net>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:01:06 +0200 Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that this bug can be mitigated by adding the two lines below to 
> ~/.hplip/hplip.conf:
> 
> -*-
> [authentication]
> su_sudo=sudo
> -*-

Good tip, thanks for that. Evidently it only works on a per-user basis - i.e., 
adding those lines to /etc/hp/hplip.conf does nothing - which isn't perfect, 
but this is something.

For me, hplip insists on going through the plugin install process after each 
time apt installs an updated package, so this will make that recurring 
annoyance that much more tolerable.

Best,
Brendon