sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

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I am facing some issues when i am trying to write sudo command. Ex. If i run $ sudo -i command then i got - This errors : sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Please help to solve this errors. Thank you.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '19 at 13:56

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Error message is self explaining. You should change permissions of /etc/sudoers, but root is needed for that so do from recovery mode:

chown root:root /etc/sudoers
chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers

Check content of file, make sure your username is there, so you allowed to use sudo. Thats all. reboot

answered Feb 07 '19 at 13:56

LeonidMew

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Sorry.. I tried it but it's not working. – Siddhi Feb 08 '19 at 09:19
pkexec chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers This command is solve this Problem. :) – Siddhi Feb 08 '19 at 09:29

sudo: /etc/sudoers is world writable sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

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