Sudo Problems

[rob.brown at brownzilla.com (Rob Brown)]

It does exist.  
ls -l /etc/sudoers
-r--r----- 1 root root 1644 Aug 17 17:54 /etc/sudoers

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah McGlinchey [mailto:sarahwithanx at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:47 PM
To: Rob Brown
Cc: John Abreau; discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Sudo Problems

You need an /etc/sudoers file...

man visudo

Check the permissions on ./etc/sudoers, but my guess is it does not exist

On 8/17/06, Rob Brown <rob.brown at brownzilla.com> wrote:
> This is what mine looks like
>
> ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
> ---s--x--x 2 root root 97072 Aug 17 17:38 /usr/bin/sudo
>
> Now when I was looking this up on the internet before I mentioned it here,
> people said that they did a
> chmod 0755 /
> I would try that but it just doesn't seem like that is the right thing to
> do...  I mean some things in / have those settings already but to give the
> whole thing that does not seem accurate.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Abreau [mailto:john.abreau at zuken.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:11 PM
> To: Rob Brown
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: 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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