OCI: sudo: /etc/<sudo file> is owned by uid 1000, should be 0

May 9, 2025 9:01AM

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Applies To:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64 on Oracle Public Cloud

Symptoms:
Unable to run sudo

[opc@instance]$ sudo su

sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is owned by uid 1000, should be 0

sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is owned by uid 1000, should be 0

sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0

sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting

sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit

Cause:

The issue is caused when the permissions of sudo related files changed. In this example

OCI: sudo: /etc/<sudo file> is owned by uid 1000, should be 0

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