"must be setuid root"- Hardy

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Goh Lip<g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> To try to rectify the problem, I booted into the (hardy) recovery (or
> single user) mode and at root prompt, did the following.
>
> chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
> chown 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
> chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
> shutdown -r now


Did you really mean that second command?  I don't know what "chown
4755 ..." would do, but probably not anything good.  Or was having it
there just a typo.

What permissions does sudo have now?  Mine looks like:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 115136 2009-02-16 20:22 /usr/bin/sudo

Michael