SUDO command only works as root (Solaris 10)

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After installing sudo in the system i am unable tu run sudo as a non-root user, when i try to execute any command i get:

/usr/local/bin/sudo: cannot execute

if i edit /etc/passwd to use a different shell i get:

/usr/local/bin/sudo: permission denied

the sudoers file seems to be correctly configured since the output of "sudo -l -U user" shows the user is able to execute only the commands i want it to use.

ls -l output is:

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 205396 Oct 8 2010 /usr/local/bin/sudo

Best Answer

The problem was on the folder: /usr/local/bin It did not have the right permissions, once I corrected this "sudo" ran without problems.

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Root User vs Sudo User – Editing Read-Only Files

Sounds like you're doing something like:

sudo echo "blah blah blah de blah" >> /etc/protected_file

This doesn't work because sudo applies to the echo command, which happily runs as root, but the redirect is part of your current shell, which isn't running as root.

Common solutions are:

sudo bash -c 'echo "blah blah blah de blah" >> /etc/protected_file'

and

echo "blah blah blah de blah" | sudo tee -a /etc/protected_file

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You're probably in the sudo or admin group, try putting the dart NOPASSWD: entry at the end of your sudoers file. Sudoers will match the last entry in the file which corresponds either to a user or a group, and as sudoers and admin come afterwards, and they ask for a password, so you're being prompted for a password.

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