sudo error

vnm_hades

Hello, I've had Solus for few days now and it has worked well until today I started getting errors about sudo and can't access/authenticate anything.

"sudo: error in /etc/sudo.conf, line 0 while loading plugin "sudoers_policy"
sudo: /usr/lib64/sudo/sudoers.so must be only be writable by owner
sudo: fatal error, unable to load plugins"

What can I do to solve this and what has possibly caused this?

kyrios

Looks like you added /etc/sudo.conf since this isn't shipped with Solus.
Try to see if you can delete this file rm /etc/sudo.conf

If you can't or if the error remain, you'll have to chroot to your Solus to remove this file and fix the permissions of /usr/lib64/sudo/sudoers.so which must be owned by root:root and permissions 644 (read+write for the owner, read for the group and others).

I don't know what you did, but your system may be compromised, so perhaps a good idea is to backup your data and reinstall.

brent

It's frightening if you did not create this file.
I did a search. Sudo.conf files where they need to be.None in /etc.