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Operating Systems AIX sudo must be setuid root. Post 302398305 by ITHelper on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 07:41:54 AM

02-24-2010

ITHelper

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sudo must be setuid root.

Guy's

I'm trying to add some lines in sudo by useing this command visudo

Code:

 
 
 
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Same thing without a password
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# Samples
# %users ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
 
%sysadmin ALL=(root) /usr/sbin/shutdown,/usr/bin/topas,/usr/bin/svmon,/usr/bin/lsof,/opt/sarcheck/bin/sarcheck,/usr/bin/stopsrc,/usr
/sbin/fuser,/usr/sbin/umount,/usr/sbin/mount,/usr/bin/chown,/usr/bin/chmod,/usr/bin/find,/usr/bin/mksysb,/usr/bin/truss,/usr/sbin/tc
pdump,/usr/bin/vmstat,/usr/sbin/varyoffvg,/usr/sbin/exportvg,/usr/sbin/varyonvg,/usr/sbin/importvg
 
 
:wq!
 
when I try to save I'm getting the belwo
 
"/etc/sudoers.tmp" 31 lines, 945 characters 
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 29 <<<
>>> sudoers file: syntax error, line 30 <<<
What now? \
Options are:
(e)dit sudoers file again
e(x)it without saving changes to sudoers file
(Q)uit and save changes to sudoers file (DANGER!)
What now?

when I try to run sudo -l

I'm getting the below ?

Code:

Sorry, sudo must be setuid root.

Please help me in this regard and advices ....

ITHelper

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       svscanboot runs the pipeline

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