/usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set version .ubantu14.04 LTS

Question

when I set the EACCESS for npm and I was ran the chown command in my terminal for change owner permission but now i stuck in this sudo :\" /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by ui

Answer 1

Try this:

pkexec chown root:root /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d -R

I've succeeded it

Answer 2

Its beacuase of Permission issue

 $ su
 Password: <type your root password>

Switch to root user and run the command

# pkexec chmod a=rx,u+ws /usr/bin/sudo

Then check it by typing from the user

$sudo -l

it Works fine for me

Cheers....

Answer 3

/usr/bin/sudo mv /usr/local/bin/sudo{,2} hash -r

Refer this https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/419122/sudo-must-be-owned-by-uid-0-and-have-the-setuid-bit-set?newreg=b2490740fb214ce79c316ad76f859e0a

Answer 4

First restart your pc, and press the ESC key while Ubuntu is booting.

This will bring you up the boot menu.

Select Advanced Options.

Select your OS version in (recovery mode), and press Enter Key.

It will bring you up another screen. Now select “Drop to root shell prompt” and press Enter.

It will load a command line at the bottom of the screen.

Now run each of the following commands.

mount -o remount,rw /
mount --all
chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo
shutdown -r now