Sudo Problems

[jpessa at gmail.com (Justin Pessa)]

On 8/17/06, Rob Brown <rob.brown at brownzilla.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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.

There are a few things to check, and the / permissions is a good place
to start. 755 is recommended. This is one example,
http://maq.dk/?postid=17

Also have a look at the Gentoo Sudo(ers) Guide:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/sudo-guide.xml

> >
> > -----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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