On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 09:21  AM, Dan O'Brien wrote:

> I've gone and broken my sudoers file, and can't sudo now. I opened it 
> in BBedit to add the line:
> <my username>  ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
> but it now comes up with the message  "sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, 
> should be 0440"
> Any idea what to do?

Log in as root and chmod it back.

bash$ su
Password:
bash# chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers
bash# exit
bash$

If you haven't activated your root account, you can do it via NetInfo or 
a handful of other ways, see MacOSXHints.com for more info


Erik




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