broken sudo?!?
Henning Kilset Pedersen
henning at mopo.no
Tue Jul 12 11:42:34 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:36 +0200, Henning Kilset Pedersen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Somehow I've managed to break the sudo functionality in Hoary. I can't
> do sudo anything. And I can't run for instance Ubuntu Update from Gnome
> since it depends on sudo.
>
> The /etc/sudoers file is (seemingly) intact and untouched. I've run
> visudo and just resaved the file, but nothing happens.
>
> Has anybody seen this before and solved it?
Never mind, I became a victim of my own habit of Redhat-like thinking.
Apparently, sudo asks for MY password, not the root password.
Sorry. I'll go hide now.
Henning
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