[LUAU] Command line help editing

[Jason Axelson]

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 <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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