Bug 194

Summary:	Incorrect permissions on /etc/sudoers after using visudo
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Jeremy Vanderburg <jvanderb>
Component:	Visudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.8
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description Jeremy Vanderburg 2005-08-12 10:29:40 MDT

When using visudo to edit the /etc/sudoers file, the permissions are reset to 
chmod 640, which causes sudo to complain that the mode of /etc/sudoers is 0640 
and should be 0440.  The mode of the file must then manually be changed back to 
440.  This is only a minor annoyance, but may be worth looking in to.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2005-10-28 12:42:24 MDT

This sounds like you have a version of visudo that doesn't match your sudo binary.  visudo already 
does set the mode on sudoers to be non-writable.