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n00b
Asked: 2013-07-09 16:49:54 +0800 CST

How do I perform a backup of sudoers file?

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After reading the following two posts:

Trying to install an openVPN GUI messed up sudoers

Standards accounts are able to get root access using sudo without password request

I would like to learn how to perform a backup of /etc/sudoers file so that I can restore it in the event of a mess-up after installing a non-Ubuntu-package-ready software.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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2 Answers

  1. To backup:

    sudo cp /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.backup

    To restore:

    sudo rm -rfv /etc/sudoers && sudo mv /etc/sudoers.backup /etc/sudoers
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  2. If /etc/sudoers is going to be a problem you probably should just keep all of /etc in version control since they're just some text files. Check this out:

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