sudo problems

[Brad DeVries]

David, any chance that /etc/groups got messed up?  I'm wondering if the
"root" group picked up a new GID.

Brad.
On Jan 1, 2013 6:22 PM, "David A. Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> First, happy new year.
>
> Now for the puzzle.  Today I ran into this:
> sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by gid 40, should be 0
> sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
> sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
>
> _very_ odd as you can see here:
>
> david at sanpablo:/usr/src/chromiumos$ ls -al /etc/sudoers*
> -r--r----- 1 root root  507 Jan 23  2012 /etc/sudoers
>
> /etc/sudoers.d:
> total 32
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jan  1 18:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 224 root root 16384 Jan  1 09:50 ..
> -r--r-----   1 root root   958 Nov 12  2011 README
> -r--r-----   1 root root   361 May 30  2012 hobbit
> -r--r-----   1 root root    53 Jan  1 18:01 relax_requirements
>
> Nothing makes sense here.  gid 40 is src (one of my secondary gids,
> but not my primary).  The subdirectory I'm in using sudo is group src.
>  Other than that, I have no idea where this might be coming from.
> Google has told me nothing that pertains (folks with this problem all
> had their permissions hosed, whereas mine are correct).
>
> Ideas?
>
> TIA,
>
> David A. Bandel
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