[lug] recovering sudo w/o root

[rm at fabula.de]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:43:09AM -0700, Michael Belanger wrote:
> Humm.. Use a recovery CD, mount the root partition, edit the file to the 
>  correct form.

Or: reboot with an init parameter to the lilo prompt:

 lilo> linux init=/bin/bash

run visudo again. This will correct all permission problems.
Reboot to normal operation.
This is assuming that you actually _can_ reboot. If your server
is an Inteloid, try Ctr-Alt-Del ....

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

I shure hope there's no way :-/

 Ralf Mattes

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> 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.
> > 
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