Comments on: visudo: sudoers file busy, try again later

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:43:55 +0000

i had to use
pkill -9 visudo

then i checked the integrity of the file with
visudo -c

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:43:55 +0000

i had to use
pkill -9 visudo

then i checked the integrity of the file with
visudo -c

By: j_aix

j_aix — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:09:10 +0000

My SSH session had terminated while editing the sudoers file issue and rm /etc/sudoers.tmp DIDN'T work...here's what I had to do:

ps -ef|grep sudo
kill -9 visudo
kill -9 vi /etc/sudoers.tmp

By: saiza

saiza — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:24:25 +0000

Damn,

Please delete or give warning for line2

I can't use sudo in my ubuntu because that command.

By: m_gol

m_gol — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:32:41 +0000

NO! DON'T EVER TRY TO DO THAT ON UBUNTU!
/etc/sudoers DO HAVE TO have permissions 440. And You propose to change it to 540. But then the system will not permit ANYBODY to use sudo command, due to incosistency. As in Ubuntu there is no root password by default, this makes anybody unable to gain root access!

And the only way to repair it is to run a LiveCD system and repair the file…