I messed up some config files, now all my users have lost sudo priv :(
Gabriel Dragffy
gabe at dragffy.com
Tue Jul 3 09:15:51 UTC 2007
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Today I did something insanely stupid.
>
> I added a user using useradd (strange that eh?). OK so I wanted to let
> this new user have sudo privs.
>
> What I did was this (don't laugh at me!):
> sudo vim /etc/group
>
> Then appended the new user name to the end of the same groups as the
> original user (groups such as adm, and admin). Saved and exited. I try
> to run superuser command with the current user (the original one) it
> tells me I'm not in the sudoers file!?? Change to the newly created
> user, and the same story. Now I've lost all admin privs, and there is no
> way I can fix it until I get to work and reboot in recovery mode.
>
> My question is - how to fix it? What did I actually break?
>
> essentially my group files looked something like:
> admin:x:108:originaluser:newuser:
>
> Thanks so much for the help. My life is on the line with this one
> because the server is an essential web and svn server for the company -
> argh!!
>
Thanks to all who responded. I fixed it just this morning. The users
needed to be a comma-separated list.
Many thanks.
Gabriel
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