sudo doesn't work

slack_prad · 02-20-2007, 02:44 PM

I did a chmod on my /usr/bin/* as root (and later read that I must not do that), now my sudo <cmd> gives me a 'sudo: must be setuid root'

Would appreciate some help fixing this. Thank you.

And how did the chmod affect this? (Is it because I chmod-ed the /usr/bin/chmod?)

b0uncer · 02-20-2007, 02:56 PM

It's probably because sudo's permissions should be something like

Quote:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 90K 2006-10-09 14:37 /usr/bin/sudo

Note the "s". That's "set user or group ID on execution" bit:

Code:

chmod +s .....

slack_prad · 02-21-2007, 07:38 AM

Perfect. Thanks a lot.