broken sudo?!?

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:36:52PM +0200, Henning Kilset Pedersen wrote:
> 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.

Wait a second: you can't run visudo and save the
/etc/sudoers file unless you run it either

a) as root or
b) under sudo.

So do you have a root account? For reasons discussed
literally ad nauseum on here, you should avoid having a root
account. But I guess it does come in handy during those
(hopefully rare) times when sudo is borked.

But in any case, it looks like you can see the contents of
/etc/sudoers. Is your own username in there? Does it say

# Added by Ubuntu installer
yourUsername ALL=(ALL) ALL

? That's a start.

What are the permissions on /etc/sudoers? It should be

-r--r-----  1 root root 376 2004-12-16 16:40 /etc/sudoers

or less.

Finally (but really should have been my first question):
what does it say when you try to run "sudo [commandName]"?

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