root access problem

[dhanabalan_svks]

hi i am not able to access root via terminal.if i use sudo command i get below error..
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440

Synaptic package not able to access.But i am not getting any error.

Please help me

Regards,
dhanabalan.c@npediatech.com

[nothingspecial]

sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers

You didn`t make everything 0777 did you? That could get messy.

[nothingspecial]

Thinking about it a bit, if you can`t sudo that`s not going to work.

Boot into recovery mode and issue that command without sudo.

[dhanabalan_svks]

I am using below command :

sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers .But i get below error

sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.

I am not able to login as a root.I use below command
sudo -su

Help ....

[nothingspecial]

Reboot and when the grub dialogue appears hit escape.

From the menu, choose recovery mode then boot into a root maintanence shell.


chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers

Then reboot.

Like I asked, you`ve not made your whole system 0777 have you?

[dhanabalan_svks]

No
But i have folder named as test

I set a permission like below

sudo chmod 0777 test/*/*/*/*/*

[Unitux]

Not from your home directory as it seems :(

[nothingspecial]

I`ve got a horrible feeling you`ve hosed your system.

Did you try the command from the recovery console?