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How do I fix "sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440" ?

Asked by johnwarde in Ubuntu, Linux, VMware

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Hello,

I provisioned a PC for an external vendor, with unbuntu server and installed the desktop package as well to get a windows GUI system.  

About a week after we gave access to our vendor they asked us to give them FTP access to '/' so that they wouldn't have to move uploaded files around so much.  They did have sudo access so I was a little surprised by the request.  

I tried to do this in GPROFTP but I could not get into it, then I tried other administrative functions and none of them worked.  I tracked the error message down by typing in "sudo synaptic" at the command line:

/etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440

the protection is a follows:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 557 2008-08-27 15:49 /etc/sudoers

From searching around the web it was suggested that a re-install was necessary.  But do I have another option?  Would appreciate step-by-step detail in an answer - have dabbled in unix/linux over the years but never spent the time to really get to know it.  Thanks!

Dunno if this helps ... the ubuntu server is installed inside a VMware Server virtual machine.

John
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