Originally Posted By: artie505
Google turns up some results for "/var/db/sudo writable by non-owner (040707), should be mode 0700", but I'm not equipped to evaluate their usefulness.

At this point you need a UNIX guy to kick in.


You could try a permissions repair. SUDO is a juicy target for someone trying to hack the computer, as it's the mechanism by which processes elevate their privileges. So if it detects any abnormalities in any of the associated files, it will refuse to run. In this case it looks like it thinks the SUDO application itself is currently modifiable by anyone. Naturally it doesn't like that, so it's not going to run, because it may have been modified to allow someone access.


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