"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:14:53PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote >> Hi group, >> >> I connect to the web using >> >> $sudo /usr/sbin/pon <isp> >> >> on one machine(2.6.20-gentoo-r6). On another >> machine(2.6.19-gentoo-r5), I get >> >> :sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied. >
The message suggest that the process of cudo actually don~t have permission to open the sudoers file. Check that the sudo-program (type sudo) is in fact owned by root, and has the setuid-bit set. $ls -l `which sudo` ---s--x--x 1 root root 107240 2007-05-21 11:11 /usr/bin/sudo* ^ ^ setuid root -- Christer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list