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Genadinik
Asked: 2011-04-09 13:03:00 +0800 CST

Error using sudo

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I recently started having this error when using the sudo command:

sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0644, should be 0440
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

Any idea how to resolve this? I use Ubuntu.

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  1. Best Answer

    The error tells you that you need to set the file permissions of /etc/sudoers to 0440. Log in as root or escalate yourself to root using su and type chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.

    Have no idea how file permissions could have changed though.

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