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sudo cmds always fatal error

jizzy

Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:28:55 am

hi peeps finally decided to junk win8 and installed zorin. having several issues but the main one being i cannot not issue sudo cmds without this error:

sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin `sudoers_policy'
sudo: /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so must only be writable by owner
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plug-ins
david@david-System-Product-Name:~$


what am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help :)

SplatOz

Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:20:53 pm

From the looks of it, you might have a corrupted sudo.conf file.

Take a look at this link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2220910

I solved it by changing /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so permission

First, log into root account
su

Insert root's password

Then change the file permissions. I did
chmod 755 /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so

Btw, I only had this problem because I accidentally changed the whole /usr/lib permissions... =\
Don't do this! I am having a lot of problems now.

But for this sudo problem, changing the sudoers.so permissions worked fine for me