[LUAU] Command line help editing

[Al Plant]

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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