"must be setuid root"- Hardy

[Goh Lip]

Goh Lip wrote:
> Michael Hirsch wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Yes, Michael, you are right. Saw the ls -l print out for the Karmic 
> partition and is same as your output.
> My output from the Hardy WAS something like
> -rwsr-xr-x 2 4755 115136 2009-02-16 20:22 /usr/bin/sudo

CORRECTION
-rwxr-xr-x 2 4755 115136 2009-02-16 20:22 /usr/bin/sudo


> I am not sure about the above sequence but the '4755' was there.
> (I had used the numerical representations '4755' of permissions I read 
> somewhere to change ownership)
> Redid again using
> chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
> chmod u-s /usr/bin/sudo
> 
> to get back a similar output as my Karmic partition.

-rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 115136 2009-02-16 20:22 /usr/bin/sudo


> Sadly, it resulted in the same problem and Hardy remains inoperable.
> I figured, perhaps wrongly, that Hardy may become 'incorrectible'
> and I reinstalled Hardy. Took less than an hour to get back to the same 
> condition as before the problem started, and made the following 
> corrections at the Karmic fstab (after mkdir /mnt/Kde3, NOT media)
> LABEL=Kde3 /mnt/Kde3 ext3 defaults 0 2
> 
> All is well.
> 
> Michael, while I may have got back my Hardy by reinstallation and all is 
>   back where I wanted it to be, it will be instructive, at least to me, 
> if  you have further thoughts about how the problem may be corrected.
> 
> I appreciate your feedback.
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> Goh Lip
> 
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