Sudo must be setuid root

[Donald Whitaker]

I seem to be having some kind of permissions problem with sudo. I have recently installed sudo on a new machine and i get the above setuid root message. Sudo is running out of
/usr/local/bin/sudo and the permissions on the file are as follows:
---s--x--x 1 bin bin 114688 Oct 15 2003 sudo
Thanks for the help.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Should be root:root as owner/group.


Rgds...Geoff

[Patrick Wallek]

Sudo has to be owned by root. The permissions on sudo on my system are:

---s--x--x 1 root root 114688 Oct 15 2003 sudo

[Bharat Katkar]

Change permissions of sudo as 555 atleast to be used by normal users.
Try doing this.
# chown 555 sudo

Regards,

[Bharat Katkar]

sorry .. ignore that one..

[Patrick Wallek]

NO!!!! Do NOT change the permissions for sudo! The permissions you have are EXACTLY correct!

The ownership is the problem!

# chown root:root /usr/local/bin/sudo

The error message is also telling you exactly what the problem is.

[Donald Whitaker]

Thanks everyone for your help.
That took care of it.