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Saiteja Vemula
Saiteja Vemula
7,162 Points
Posted by Saiteja Vemula
Saiteja Vemula
7,162 Points

Need help

I've edited sudoers file in /etc directory. I'm unable to use sudo command now. How can I reset it?

If i use 

treehouse ~ $ sudo su                                                                                                                                                                           
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0666, should be 0440                                                                                                                                                 
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting                                                                                                                                                  
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin                                                                                                                                                        
treehouse ~ $ sudo su

is the output.

And is there any way to login as root without using sudo su ?