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      spud11
      last edited by

      I've very stupidly managed to change ownership of the sudoers file to pi meaning I no longer have access to sudo. I get the response sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 1000, should be 0. I've tried pkexec chown root:root /etc/sudoers /etc/sudoers.d -R but of course I have not set up a password for root before. Could someone help me please? Thanks.

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        edmaul69 @spud11
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        @spud11 if you want to get more attention to your issue you should change the title to more show your issue.

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          Sano
          last edited by Sano

          IIRC there is no root password.
          Single user mode won't help as it requires root password too, and you need to be root to edit /boot/cmdline.txt in order to remove this.
          So you can :

          • use a windows computer to add init=/bin/sh at the end of cmdline.txt in the /boot (fat) partition of the SD card
          • use a linux computer (live distro if you don't have one), then mount root partition of the SD card and change ownership of sudoers.
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