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    Getting trouble with Sudo permissions

    When I've give "sudo bash" in terminal, following error message is displaying

    sudo : /etc/sudoers is mode 0555, should be 0440
    sudo : no valid sudoers sources found,quitting
    sudo : unable to initialize policy plugin

    What might be wrong, suddenly this message was showing.

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    Re: Getting trouble with Sudo permissions

    Quote Originally Posted by dmahesh22 View Post
    When I've give "sudo bash" in terminal, following error message is displaying

    sudo : /etc/sudoers is mode 0555, should be 0440
    sudo : no valid sudoers sources found,quitting
    sudo : unable to initialize policy plugin

    What might be wrong, suddenly this message was showing.
    /etc/sudoers is by default 0440. you might have changed that accidentally
    can you run other sudo commands? if yes then revert it back to 0440
    Code:
    sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers

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    Re: Getting trouble with Sudo permissions

    the above command is not working,because actual trouble with "Sudo".

    Thanks for reply

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    Re: Getting trouble with Sudo permissions

    I think you will need to boot into the recovery console, remount the root filesystem read-write, and do the chmod from there

    Code:
    # mount -o remount,rw /
    # chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers
    # exit
    If you changed file modes on other stuff that you shouldn't (e.g. by doing a recursive chmod in the root filesystem) then other things may be broken as well though.

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