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jc@arch

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Registered: 2021-06-04

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[SOLVED] /etc/sudoers file deleted

Hi everyone, noob here.

This morning i merged /etc/sudoers and /etc/sudoers.pacnew with 'sudo pacdiif'.
I believed the merge preserve my user. Unfortunately not.

So now i can't 'visudo'.
i can't 'sudo'
i can't log as root('su') because i disabled the root account...

how can i fix my mistake ?

thanks

Last edited by jc@arch (2022-03-13 11:16:38)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] /etc/sudoers file deleted

Try booting to rescue.target.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … _boot_into
Either that or boot with the install media and edit the file from there.

You should always manually inspect every .pacnew merge. If there was no difference in the file to be replaced then a .pacnew wouldn't have been created in the first place.

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Re: [SOLVED] /etc/sudoers file deleted

If you have polkit installed and your user is configured as an administrator (i.e. in the wheel group by default), you may be able to use pkexec to run visudo as root.

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jc@arch

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Registered: 2021-06-04

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Re: [SOLVED] /etc/sudoers file deleted

it worked. lesson learned !

pkexec pacman -S vi

pkexec visudo

thanks.