concepts wrote:
>> 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!
>>
>>     
> Thank you for the input but, we've already tried that to no avail... :-((
>
>
>   



Boot with a LiveCD such as Knoppix or Ubuntu Live CD, login as root, and
mount your hard drive, and chown root:root sudo and reboot on the hard
drive. You should be good to go after that.


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