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jeffk
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 Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:33 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] loss of sudo and su, user not in sudoers |
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My ~amd64 laptop primary user can't sudo after bootup this morning, has left me dead in the water for functions like starting emacs daemon, let alone investigation and repair of the issue. I'd like to provide a package emerge history, but can't 
| Code: | % sudo ls
Password:
myruser is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. |
I haven't changed anything with visudo or otherwise, and the file seems to be unaltered by file date:
| Code: | % ls -lt /etc/sudoers
-r--r----- 1 root root 2847 Aug 19 2010 /etc/sudoers |
Nor can I su to root to investigate, e.g. if some package update may be at fault
| Code: | % su
Password:
su: Permission denied |
| Code: | % ls -al /bin/su /usr/bin/sudo
-rws--x--x 1 root root 36752 Jun 16 10:29 /bin/su
-rws--x--x 1 root root 146520 May 9 06:43 /usr/bin/sudo |
Any ideas? Dropping out to sysrescueCD is my next option, but it won't be quick or easy to confirm fixes there will work when the laptop reboots its own Gentoo OS.
Thanks,
Jeff
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creaker
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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you can do it (adding to sudoers) not with visudo only:
| Quote: | | echo "username ALL=(ALL) ALL" >> /etc/sudoers |
Regarding to su permissions, check it out: whether your user in "wheel" group or not?
If no, add you user to this group. It requires for su.
Added:
To be able to edit these files, you have to be logged as root. You can do it from console: press Alt+Ctrl+F1, log in as root and proceed |
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jeffk
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| Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Solved, pilot error. While trying to get nullmailer to work:
nullmailer-1.13 how to use /usr/sbin/sendmail without sudo?
I applied usermod -G nullmail , and forgot the all-important -a to preserve existing groups.
root login still worked, so I didn't have to go all the way down to systemrescuecd, just out of X and to the console. Restored user to group wheel, which fixed it.
Jeff[/b] |
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