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Which is sudoers is owned by uID 501?
Now we want to fix /etc/sudoers owned by UID 501. Still in sh, first check permission by running ls -ln /private/etc/sudoers and it should get this: Notice the UID 501? We want it to become UID 0. So, run this command chown -R root:wheel /private/etc/sudoers and then ls -ln /private/etc/sudoers again to check if the permission changes to this:
How can I solve this error Sudo must be owned by?
Though you’ll need to actually log as root, if you can’t sudo right now. I don’t know of any way of automatically restoring all the permissions on the rest of the files. First of all we will get an error which will show : “sudo /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set aws.
How to get sudo to become UID 0?
We want it to become UID 0. So, run this command chown -R root:wheel /private/etc/sudoers and then ls -ln /private/etc/sudoers again to check if the permission changes to this: So try sudo as you would again and see if that does the trick.
How to fix Sudo in / etc / sudoers?
# # By default this script does nothing. chown -R root:root /etc/sudoers.d chown root:root /etc/sudoers chmod 440 /etc/sudoers exit 0 After the fix is in place the commands in /etc/rc.local can be removed.
How to change Sudo Sudo to UID 0?
Still in sh, I typed chown -R root:wheel /var/db/sudo/yourusername to change it to UID 0 instead of UID 501 as above case Do the same for ts, chown -R root:wheel /var/db/sudo/ts/ Now check again the permission with ls -ln and it should look like these:
Is there a way to use sudo with shell?
The reason for the shell->AppleScript->shell thing is to use the with administrator privileges option, which has much the same effect as sudo but will work even if /etc/sudoers is completely messed up. Type sh or sudo sh (my case I accidentally set chown -R / so sudo is me, no need sudo anymore, using sh)
What to do if Sudo doesn’t work in Vagrant?
This has almost always been in the context of a Vagrant-managed VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu headless, so YMMV. I’d never had a good fix until now, but this seems to do the trick easyishly. NOTE Do this as vagrant user without trying to set permissions to root.
Can you get root with / etc / sudoers?
Now, unfortunately I’ve googled the root situation in Mint (btw, in Linux that’s the Administrator account — the one and only, others just have permissions to imitate him).. It seems that root is disabled and has no password.. But because of your /etc/sudoers problem you cannot get root priviledges .. Basically, your stuck..