sudo not working??

[fkim]

i try to run the sudo command but i get the following output

sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied

any ideas?

[iwanabeguru]

The errormessage contain the exact answer.

check the permission of /etc/sudoers

ls -l /etc/sudoers

if it looks like
-rw--------

you need to set the read permission for anybody , you must be root to do this

chmod 644 /etc/sudoers

or

chmod +r /etc/sudoers

[fkim]

i do exactly that and now i get this output

sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440

[crazy01]

this may or may not help..


i dont use sudo i think that is more for ubuntu and other distros. if i wanna do something that needs sudo i login as root and then do the command.

to login as root

open a terminal

Applications > Accessories > Terminal

then i type

su

and i am prompted for my password


does this help?.. is that what you were looking for?

[iwanabeguru]

check the group owner of the file and add yourself to the group
or change the group owner of the file to your group
and set back the permissions to 0440

[Thrillhouse]

check the group owner of the file and add yourself to the group
or change the group owner of the file to your group
and set back the permissions to 0440

/etc/sudoers is usually owned by the system group and, in general, it's not a great idea to add regular users to the system group just so they can use sudo. At the same time, it's also not a good idea to change the group owner of the sudoers file to anything other than system.

Have you tried:

su -
chmod 440 /etc/sudoers

?

[hazel]

I'm puzzled by this. My /etc/sudoers file is also 440 and is owned by root and the root group but I have no problems in using sudo. I checked the permissions of the sudo program and found that it runs suid; that gives it access to /etc/sudoers regardless of the restricted permissions. Perhaps fkim's sudo does not have the suid bit set.

Try ls -l /usr/bin/sudo and check that the first set of permissions are rws, not rwx.

[fkim]

the output of ls -al /usr/bin/sudo is

-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 91700 2006-04-15 10:39 /usr/bin/sudo

so i dont think the problem is there..i pretty much have no idea coz av tried to look all over but i get nothing