[plug] System breakage (SUDO && other general things)

Russell Steicke r.steicke at bom.gov.au
Tue Jan 13 21:20:03 WST 2004


On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:32:42PM +0800, Tim White wrote:
> Hi, just been playing around with my Debian  (3.0r0 with parts r1) server 
> setting up things like mail servers and DNS servers.
> I have sudo installed and up until 5 mins ago it was working a treat. Then 
> a problem that has occurred numerous time reoccurred. Sudo stopped work how 
> it was meant to. I can't invalidated the time stamp for the passwd, I can't 

Check that sudo is still setuid root.  ie
 
 -rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        85528 Sep  3 12:33 /usr/bin/sudo*
    ^            ^^^^



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Russell Steicke

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