[sudo-users] sudo must be setuid root

[mlh at zip.com.au]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:33:12 -0600
"Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com> wrote:

> In message <200504111550.21149.javier.ruiz at indufrial.com>
> 	so spake Javier Ruiz (javier.ruiz):
> 
> > when I using :  sudo -u root ...
> > I recive message:  sudo must be setuid root
> > becose I use chmod on /usr/bin.
> > 
> > what permisions I have to change?
> 
> If sudo is installed as /usr/bin/sudo, then run
> 
> chmod 4111 /usr/bin/sudo
> 
> as root.

I've noticed that the sunfreeware/companion cdrom versions of
sudo for solaris10 AND the sudo from the hpux porting and
archive center for hpux 11 are not setuid.  

I don't know WHAT the people who make these packages are doing.

Matt