HPLIP

implement policykit support for hp-setup

Bug #344246 reported by Rémy CLOUARD (shikamaru)
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Bug Description

Hello,

At the moment hp-toolbox looks for kdesu. Since this tool is a bit deprecated now, and often hidden in an obscure path, could you implement PolicyKit support in hplip ?

An easy workaround is to add kdesu's path to the $PATH variable (for me it's /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/ ) but this workaround won't work once kdesu gets completely wiped (same goes for gksu)

thanks in advance,

Regards

Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in hplip:
assignee: nobody → kalosaurusrex
status: New → Triaged
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Stan Dolson (stan-dolson) wrote :

Support for PolicyKit has been added in HPLIP 3.9.4 but only for
the following distributions:

   Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10, 9.04
   Fedora 10, 11

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Tim Waugh (twaugh) wrote :

So does it use the cups-pk-helper D-Bus API?

How about using IPP authentication when D-Bus (or cups-pk-helper) is not available?

Come to think of it, why do we even need hp-setup? Distributions ship their own print queue management tools -- are they not sufficient for some reason?

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