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Sudo Problems



Rob Brown wrote:
> I installed Sudo on my gentoo server and when I attempt to use it, I get an
> error.  
> 
>  
> 
> rob ~ $ sudo su
> 
> sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
> 
> rob ~ $ sendmail: Cannot open mail:25
> 
>  
> 
> I have sudo installed on my gentoo laptop and do not have this problem.  Any
> ideas?
> 
> 

ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
---s--x--x  1 root root 93816 Aug 21  2005 /usr/bin/sudo

The sudo binary needs to be owned by root and have its setuid bit set.


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