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. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
