{"id":6511,"date":"2014-03-31T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2014-03-31T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:03:56","slug":"sudo-su-results-effective-uid-0-sudo-installed-setuid-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webkul.com\/blog\/sudo-su-results-effective-uid-0-sudo-installed-setuid-root\/","title":{"rendered":"sudo su: results -effective uid is not 0 is sudo installed setuid root"},"content":{"rendered":"

This another common problem for the new users for Linux. Anonymous change of permission of root or while experimenting we do run commands which results into some unexpected results.<\/p>\n

we can observe this output while doing sudo su in linux mainly in ubuntu.<\/p>\n

The solution lies in changing the permisions<\/p>\n

Method 1<\/strong>: While booting hold on shift and from the recovery menu drop to the root shell and run the following commands<\/p>\n

chown -R root:root \/usr\/bin\/sudo<\/p>\n

mount -ro remount,rw \/<\/p>\n

mount -ro remount,ro \/<\/p>\n

basically we are changing the owner and remounting to fix this error.<\/p>\n

If this doesn,t work do opt the next method<\/p>\n

Method 2 :<\/strong>pkexec chown root:root \/usr\/bin\/sudo<\/p>\n

pkexec chmod 4755 \/usr\/bin\/sudo<\/p>\n

and boot normally.<\/p>\n

This will get you out of the effective uid error.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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