On 12/30/23 18:18, Mike Wright wrote:
On 12/30/23 15:13, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
> On a system restore from a tar archive sudo won't work. Says
> /usr/bin/sudo needs to be owned by 0 with the suid bit set. Root
> owns the file and is 0. Looking at a working system directory list shows
>
> -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 57456 Aug 16 20:00 su
> ---s--x--x. 1 root root 202872 Jul 24 20:00 sudo
>
> How does that s bit get set?
man chmod, paragraph 2
The error message is about an suid bit while the man page talks about
setuid, trying it works. Not a clear extension over the old 777.