[sudo-users] setuid

Josh Feather jdfeathe at gmail.com
Wed Jul 10 11:10:07 MDT 2013


Are the permissions of sudo ---s--s--x?

On Jul 10, 2013, at 10:51 AM, David Flatley <dflatley at us.ibm.com> wrote:

>   Installed 1.8.7p1 on a RHEL 5.5 system and when I do sudo in any form I
> get "Sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root"
> I did a find on "sudo" files to compare permissions with a working system
> and they are the same. Double checked the hash value of the
> downloaded rpm. If I sign in as root I get the right output from sudo -V.
> Any ideas before I remove and install sudo again.
>    Thanks.
> 
> David Flatley
> "To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password." -UNKNOWN
> 
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