[lug] recovering sudo w/o root

[Michael Belanger]

Humm.. Use a recovery CD, mount the root partition, edit the file to the 
  correct form.

Otherwise, no. I don't think you can.

-M

Michael Wegener wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I was in a rush adding a user to the sudoers file and stupidly forgot 
> about using visudo, tried to edit it directly, using "sudo u+w sudoers." 
> Now, every sudo call reports that the mode is wrong and exits. This 
> would be no problem if I had the root password, but the only person I 
> know who *may* have it (long story) is incommunicado. Is there any way 
> out of this, or do I have to hunt this person down? I know how to 
> recover the root password, but this machine is our only webserver right now.
>  
> --M
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