[SDBUG] Sudo on a Linux netbook

[Geoffrey Sanders]

Al

Use 'sudo -s' to get a root prompt on Ubuntu. The ability to 'su -' to root is normally disabled by default on Ubuntu; requiring post install config to enable.

If the user you are attempting doesn't work, try the user that was created during install. Then add the additional user to sudoers.

- Geoff

On Nov 8, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Al Plant <noc at 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.



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