Somehow, permission in my Fedora got messed up. I don't see root is owner of /usr/bin/sudo directory and I am not able to execute any command using sudo. I am trying to find a solution but the solution I am seeing Ubuntu specific. Can some one please provide me steps to fix in Fedora.
Error:
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
Boot to recovery mode or log in as root if you can and run:
chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo && chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
same as with Ubuntu.
You may have other problems with permissions and ownership, one advantage of .rpm systems however is you can chack and reset them easily:
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setugids $p; done
for p in $(rpm -qa); do rpm --setperms $p; done
See man rpm or https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-... for details
Do run the setugids before running setperms, as modifying the uid and gid will clear the suid and guid bits in the perms.
Asked: 2017-07-22 07:21:36 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 23 '17
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Do you have some other way than sudo to get root access? Root privileges of some form are certainly necessary for fixing those sudo permissions.
Try ctrl-alt-f2 to get to text terminal, login as root, and correct the permissions settings from there.