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    Sudo stopped working

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      Project_Gamer
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      Sudo not working!

      Pie 3 running latest version of retropie. 4.3

      getting these errors

      Sudo: /etc/sudooers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0
      Sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
      sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin.

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        mitu Global Moderator @Project_Gamer
        last edited by mitu

        @project_gamer You messed up the permissions on the /etc/sudoers file. Boot the PI in safe mode and restore the permissions on the file - it should be owned by root and not by the pi user. You probably chown-ed the /etc folder to the pi user :(.

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