[sudo-users] Strange sudo for root user

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Mon Dec 6 11:39:43 EST 2010


Sudo relies on group permissions to open the sudoers file by default
to avoid issues with NFS.  I don't know why it would fail to open
sudoers unless the "root" group on the machine in question does not
have gid 0.

What does "ls -n /etc/sudoers" show?

 - todd



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