[SOLVED] Unable to use SUDO: issues with /etc/sudoers

fantab · 2012-11-20 05:32:48

I have reinstalled Arch_64 and I have run into some problems with SUDO.

I get the following errors when I try to use sudo:

sudo : unable to stat /etc/sudoers : Permission Denied
sudo : no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo : unable to initialize policy plugin

Here's what I have done with it so far:
* I added USERNAME (myself) to the 'wheel' group
* I uncommented %wheel ALL=(ALL) All using visudo
As it was not working for me I also:
* # chown -c root:root /etc/sudoers
* # chmod -c 0440 /etc/sudoers
* Since that too did not work, I recommented %wheel and added USERNAME ALL=(ALL) ALL just under the line root ALL=(ALL) ALL and repeated the above steps. The above problem persists.
* I checked with visudo -c and it says "/etc/sudoers parsed ok".

I have been through the WIKI and the forums but still unable to figure out whats going wrong.
I will appreciate if the forum can guide me to solution and help me resolve this issue.

Thanks.

Last edited by fantab (2012-11-20 09:00:56)

WonderWoofy · 2012-11-20 06:06:41

Why did you chown and chroot(??? did you mean chmod) the sudoers file? Had you changed them for some reason before?

fantab · 2012-11-20 06:55:51

Oops.. I meant chmod...
No I havent' changed anything before. But since sudo is not working I also tried chown and chmod...

fantab · 2012-11-20 08:59:05

I reinstalled the core and set up the /etc/sudoers again and its working now... but I still wonder where possibly I erred.

Anyways, since its all good now, I am marking this thread as SOLVED.

ideopath72 · 2012-11-20 09:24:52

Had exactly the same problem with a new Arch_64 install a few months ago, which turned out to be a problem with permissions on / (which i changed with chmod) - can't remember the details, but it was this post that put me on to a solution:
http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic … =20#p19727

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#1 2012-11-20 05:32:48

[SOLVED] Unable to use SUDO: issues with /etc/sudoers

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to use SUDO: issues with /etc/sudoers

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to use SUDO: issues with /etc/sudoers

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to use SUDO: issues with /etc/sudoers

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