sudo problems

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Brad DeVries <devriesbj at gmail.com> wrote:
> David, any chance that /etc/groups got messed up?  I'm wondering if the
> "root" group picked up a new GID.

No, that wasn't it.  I just found the problem.  I'm doing a chroot,
and the chroot is where things got messed up.  I thought the sudo came
before the chroot -- it comes after.

I had some things in a development tree in /usr/src where other folks
could work as well.  Someone must have run a chown -R :src on
/usr/src/ so they could write.  Unfortunately, it hosed the chroot
environment.

Hadn't looked in the chroot for usr/bin/sudo.

sorry for the noise -- problem solved.



>
> 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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David A. Bandel
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