[SDBUG] Sudo on a Linux netbook

[Dave Smith]

Not sure if there is something different in Ubuntu, but
in Fedora and Red Hat, you need to configure the /etc/sudoers
file to get sudo to work.

You should always be able to get super user priveleges with
  su -    
and enter the root password.

Dave Smith


On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:14:16PM -1000, Al Plant 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.
> 
> 
> 
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