#RE: No root password in Ubuntu 9.04 after updating

[Ryan Rix]

On Tue 23 June 2009 2:45:03 pm Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Tried to mount the partition but it was already mounted.
> Then entered:
> root at eagle:~# /etc/sudoers
>
> and got this return
>
> bash:/etc/sudoers:Permission denied.
>
> So I am still at a loss on how to fix this problem!!
>

Gotta use visudo, do to the way its permissions are set up.

# visudo

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialAdvanced_vi.html
^read to figure out vi^

Ryan