Re: hp-setup doesn't run

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 30 July 2009 18:59:57 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > Doesn't launching hp-setup from a root terminal work?
> >
> > It won't, PolicyKit is set up to deny access to root by default.
>
> Well, actually hp-setup isn't using PolicyKit, system-config-printer is (so
> I'm replying to the wrong message).
>
> But hplip has its own bogus checks against running as root (search for
> getuid in /usr/share/hplip to find them).

If you try to run hp-setup as user it tells you that it *must* be run as root.  
This is a one-time run.

Anne