+10 that's the final step owner=root setuid bit in 1st set = when I run run me as that userid not current userid so setuid bit is set but running as aires (owner of sudo)
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Philippe Gauthier <[email protected]> wrote: > Le vendredi 20 novembre 2009 à 04:40 +0000, concepts a écrit : >> Yet, when I try anything, I STILL get; >> >> ar...@aries:~$ ls -l `which sudo` >> -rwsr-xr-x 1 aries root 123448 2009-06-22 12:14 /usr/bin/sudo >> ar...@aries:~$ sudo apt-get install super >> sudo: must be setuid root >> ar...@aries:~$ > > Yes, the sudo program is running "setuid aries". The third and fourth > fields in the output of `ls' are the owner and group of the file, > respectively. A program with the setuid bit set (shown as an `s' in the > first field) will run with the privileges of the program file's owner. > So the owner of /usr/bin/sudo must be root for "setuid root" to work. To > change this back to correct settings, use: > > chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo > > with root privileges (such as when running in recovery mode.) > > Good luck! > > -- > Philippe Gauthier <[email protected]> > http://www.deuxpi.ca/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- ___..____._..___._..___. ...|...|___/..|..|......|..|___| ...|...|.....\..|..|___.|..|.....| "I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it." -Vincent Van Gogh _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
