In my VirtualBox Debian unstable installation I have removed sudo for my account and logged out and in again to make sure group information is refreshed. The hp-plugin (without the -i) works perfectly. But sudo appears not to blame because when I reversed and re-enabled sudo + logout + login it also worked.
So I did another apt-get -t stretch-backports upgrade on my notebook and upgraded everything (including hplip) to stretch-backports. Tried the hp-plugin command and now it works perfectly! It asks for a root password, which I type in and now it doesn't give any error message. I'm not sure what changed but the problem appears solved somehow. Thanks for the support, cheers, Mari On 3/26/19 1:04 PM, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Tue 26 Mar 2019 at 11:50:38 +0100, Mari Donkers wrote: > >> Nope, I always create a separate, dedicated root account. And install >> (when not installed) and configure sudo manually after installation. > Ok. I was thinking in terms of your report being related to #825383: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825383 > >> Had earlier tried various approaches from root prompt (after a sudo -i) >> and from my regular account with and without sudo. Didn't work. >> >> But the sudo hp-plugin -i command does indeed work (didn't know the -i >> parameter to hp-plugin). Tried it in a VirtualBox Debian unstable >> installation. > I am barely familiar with sudo and its configuration so, TBH, I am not > sure I understand what > > > ...and my account added to the sudo group to enable... > > does. However, hplip assumes the existence of a root account on a Debian > installation (on Ubuntu it assumes a sudo account). What happens if you > unadd it? > > Cheers, > > Brian.
