I screwed up sudoers and I haven't root access.

nomikos · 02-11-2011, 12:50 PM

This is the hard way to learn when you MUST use visudo. That's right. I did something stupid like:

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$ sudo vi /etc/sudoers

and now have:

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$ sudo
>>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 79 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 79
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

So what if I have locked the root account (passwd -l root) and now I can't do su to fix sudoers file???

AlucardZero · 02-11-2011, 01:21 PM

Boot from a live CD and fix the sudoers file.

nomikos · 02-11-2011, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AlucardZero

Boot from a live CD and fix the sudoers file.

Thanks for your answer. Is not that easy. The screwed up was in a VPS.

nomikos · 02-12-2011, 11:42 AM