[SDBUG] Sudo on a Linux netbook

[Al Plant]

Geoffrey Sanders wrote:
> 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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Aloha,

Thanks that sudo -s is what works.



~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii -  Phone:  808-284-2740
   + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org +
   + http://aloha50.net   - Supporting - FreeBSD  7.2 - 8.0 - 9* +
   < email: noc at hdk5.net >
"All that's really worth doing is what we do for others."- Lewis Carrol