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Hello, I messed up with permissions somehow, may anybody please clarify for me how to run back that, when I run these commands, I get the next
Air-Anastasia:bereshka$ which sudo
/usr/bin/sudo
Air-Anastasia:bereshka$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Air-Anastasia:bereshka$ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 370704 May 29 18:36 /usr/bin/sudo
MacBook Air, iOS 10.1
Re-install is the easy option.
But if you want to play around in Recover mode, you could try that. You would have to mount the boot partition read/write and then navigate to the sudo file on the mounted boot partition, which would be something like
cd /Volumes/<boot_partition_name>/usr/bin/
chmod 4511 sudo
If that doesn't work, then booting into single user mode might do it
Boot holding Command-S
When you get the command prompt
mount -uw /
chmod 4511 /usr/bin/sudo
exit
Re-install is the easy option.
But if you want to play around in Recover mode, you could try that. You would have to mount the boot partition read/write and then navigate to the sudo file on the mounted boot partition, which would be something like
cd /Volumes/<boot_partition_name>/usr/bin/
chmod 4511 sudo
If that doesn't work, then booting into single user mode might do it
Boot holding Command-S
When you get the command prompt
mount -uw /
chmod 4511 /usr/bin/sudo
exit
/bin/ls -leO@ /usr/bin/sudo
-r-s--x--x 1 root wheel restricted,compressed 369648 Jul 15 2017 /usr/bin/sudo
You will need to be the 'root' to use this command. Normally you would use 'sudo' but you broke that.
chmod 4511 /usr/bin/sudo
You could just re-install macOS over top of the existing install. That should put things back the way they belong.
You could boot into Recovery mode, and start a Terminal session from the Recovery menu, then mount the real boot partition read/write, then issue the above command including the /Volume/boot_device_name/usr/bin/sudo as the path.
And if you broke the 'sudo' command, did you also brake the /private/etc/sudoers file's permissions as well?
/bin/ls -leO@ /private/etc/sudoers
-r--r----- 1 root wheel - 2299 Jan 11 09:06 /private/etc/sudoers
No sense going to all the trouble to fix sudo, and still have a broken sudoers file.
Hello,
Thank you for your wish to help, as far only re-install I found as an option in the internet and any other options what people offer is for ubuntu, but not so much for OS.
So when I do
/bin/ls -leO@ /usr/bin/sudo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel restricted,compressed 370704 May 29 18:36 /usr/bin/sudo
and here is the second line
/bin/ls -leO@ /private/etc/sudoers
-r--r----- 1 root wheel compressed 2299 Aug 22 2015 /private/etc/sudoers
Do you still think there is only one option is to re-install?
the easy option)) I have bunch of programs, I will need to install that too, also to import ssh keys and other, to set all email accounts... I should have a backup if my 3 yrs old would not threw out the HD)
Thank you, I will try this Recovery mode and if that doesn't work, I will re-install! thanks a lot
I will post a reply about wether it's successfully done)
A re-install overtop of your existing install should not change any of your personal information, not the apps you have installed.
But a backup before you install would be good. Then again, chances are a backup would want to become root, and sudo is broke - Classic Catch-22 🙂
Thanks a lot,I did backup and I did re-install, that easily solved the problem, I didn't loose any personal data or app!! I didn't know about that the system can refresh itself without touching users data. Thank you!
Now that everything is working, make a new backup so that you can recover with a working system.
Sure and will put it in a safety place 🙂
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
