Re: [LUAU] Command line help editing

[Al Plant]

Jason Axelson wrote:
I may be missing something, but what is wrong with just using sudo?

Jason

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Al Plant <n...@hdk5.net> wrote:
Aloha,

I want to add network printing to a HP netbook running Ubuntu Linux. The
network is existing and runs on FreeBSD.

I have tried to make an /etc/printcap file on the netbook but the user needs
sudo to act as root. For some reason I cant make the user su to root then
use vi to create the file. The admin tool on the Ubuntu to set up a printer
is not helpful and I have read all the how to's in Ubuntu and Debian books I
have here to do it from the command line.

Has anybody setup network printing who could point me to a how to about
using sudo under Linux? I have no problems under ssh and su on remote
FreeBSD servers editing as root. So I must be missing something.




I am in the box as a user. When I go to sudo to shutdown it works fine 
making the user root.
But it wont make sudo go to Vi and let me edit the files I need to. 
Something is not correct i think.


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