[vox-tech] sudoers file on ubuntu corrupted, how can I recover it?

[Hai Yi]

thanks Jeff and Tony. Tony, how can I enter grub when starting the computer?
I don't know what's the hotkey, and google didn't help and ubuntu takes me
directly to the gui...

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Tony Cratz <cratz at hematite.com> wrote:

> On 06/12/2010 01:46 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> > Reboot with a linux boot disk (Ubuntu install disk works well)
> > Mount disk
> > make chmod change to sudo file
> > reboot from hard disk
>
>
>         Or without the Linux boot disk
>
>        Enter grub, select the recover option
>        select 'drop to root shell'
>        chmod 440 /etc/sudoers
>        reboot
>
>
>                                                        Tony
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