Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

[John Jolet <john@jolet.net>]

On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Richard Fish wrote:

> On 2/4/06, John Jolet <john@jolet.net> wrote:
>> Okay, I give up.  I've been struggling with a couple of very, very
>> strange permissions problems for months.  I just finished an emerge -
>> e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it.  first problem:
>> trying to use sudo, but it keeps saying "can't open sudoers file,
>> permission denied".  even if i'm root doing sudo it tells me that.
>
> Try doing "strace sudo ..." as root.  That should at least tell you
> what system call is returning -EPERM.
>
okay, so I emerged strace and did that.  didn't find any "EPERM"  
thing, but did find this:
lstat64("/etc/sudoers", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0440, st_size=1643, ...}) = 0
setresgid32(-1, 0, -1)                  = 0
setresuid32(0, 1, 0)                    = 0
open("/etc/sudoers", O_RDONLY)          = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
geteuid32()                             = 1
setresuid32(0, 0, 0)                    = 0
write(2, "sudo: ", 6sudo: )                   = 6
write(2, "can\'t open /etc/sudoers", 23can't open /etc/sudoers) = 23


which just says permission denied, right?  am I missing something  
simple here?  i mean, root can read anything, right?
> -Richard
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