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Old 07-18-2006, 01:28 AM   #1
thammerlund
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UID Problem


I keep getting the error:

Code:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 500, should be 0
Can anyone help me change this? I think the reason for this problem is because I copied "sudoers" from another machine. I've seen other posts about changing the uid, but that they seem to be dealing with a person's uid, not a file.

Anyway, thank you in advance.
Tom
 
Old 07-18-2006, 01:45 AM   #2
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SU to root and run "chown root /etc/sudoers"

Then edit it using the "visudo" program. Does it look like the normal highly commented sudoers file?
I'm just concerned whether it was written over with a blank file somehow.

Last edited by jschiwal; 07-18-2006 at 01:47 AM.
 
Old 07-18-2006, 02:21 AM   #3
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Thank you for replying.

I'm not sure what a normal sudoers file looks like, so here is mine.

Code:
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification

Defaults    env_reset
Defaults    env_keep = "COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC KDEDIR \
                        LS_COLORS MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME \
                        LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION \
                        LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC \
                        LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS \
                        _XKB_CHARSET"

# Runas alias specification

# User privilege specification
root	ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
%wheel	ALL=(ALL)	ALL

# Same thing without a password
# %wheel	ALL=(ALL)	NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users  ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
 
Old 07-18-2006, 07:49 AM   #4
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It looks a bit stripped down compared to mine, but otherwise it looks OK. If you want to use sudo, I would suggest that you uncomment this line:
%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Then make yourself a member of the "wheel" group.
You should need to prefix commands in /sbin and /usr/sbin, for example:
sudo /sbin/route
 
Old 07-19-2006, 12:43 AM   #5
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Thank you for your help.
 
  


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