Re: [PLUG] sudo broken in ubuntu

[John Ellingsworth <jellings@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> I've just put Ubuntu on a second drive to try it out. I ran etherconf to
> set up the network and now I can't sudo anything. I get sudo: unable to
> lookup copernicus.example.com via getbyhostname(). I hunted around a
> bit, and I found a few people saying they fixed this error by
> reconfiguring locales. However, their fixes involve using sudo, and that
> is completely non functional for me at the moment. 
>
> Any ideas, anyone? Note that because ubuntu has no root account
> configured and I didn't set one up, there is effectively no root on this
> machine without sudo. Nor can I mount the drive and chroot into it from
> my debian because of "unsupported features" in ubuntu's ext3. 

Try:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/root

Also:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com//RootSudo

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John Ellingsworth
University of Pennsylvania
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