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#1 2015-05-14 21:29:31
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[SOLVED] sudoedit: /usr/bin/sudoedit must be owned by uid 0
I tried to mount /usr from a different location in read-only mode and moved /usr from the root ext4 partition to another disk with btrfs filesystem. After I mounted it with 'ro' flag, 'sudo' and 'sudoedit' have ceased to work and return error messages when called:
sudoedit: /usr/bin/sudoedit must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set What can be the cause of this problem?
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#2 2015-05-14 21:35:48
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Re: [SOLVED] sudoedit: /usr/bin/sudoedit must be owned by uid 0
How did you move the contents?
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#3 2015-05-14 21:48:35
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Re: [SOLVED] sudoedit: /usr/bin/sudoedit must be owned by uid 0
Trilby:
cp -r /usr/* /mnt/stor/arch_usrbing different
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#4 2015-05-14 21:53:47
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Re: [SOLVED] sudoedit: /usr/bin/sudoedit must be owned by uid 0
That's the problem, you're going to be missing a lot of file attributes and likely several sym links as cp does not copy these without additional flags. Read `man cp' - it's short. Also rsync would probably be a better way of copying a system.
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#5 2015-05-14 21:54:13
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Re: [SOLVED] sudoedit: /usr/bin/sudoedit must be owned by uid 0
Seems that for preserving setuid one needs to use --preserve flag. Thanks for the hint, Trilby.
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