Error with sudoers_audit plugin

salon_sue

I have one problem with sudo. When I run sudo in regular account I get: sudo: PERM_ROOT: setresuid(0, -1, -1): Permission denied sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit But I commented the line where was written Plugin audit in /etc/sudo.conf. And here is my /etc/sudoers: # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of # directly modifying this...

Originally asked by Atlas Co on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The error sudo: PERM_ROOT: setresuid(0, -1, -1): Permission denied occurs when the process/ user lacks the CAP_SETUID capability. The man page setresuid(2) ( Link ) mentions this as being required. The lack of this capability can stem from multiple sources, like a restricted cgroup or systemd unit. Without more information on your user account/ execution context a concrete answer can't be given here. You could try to track down your current capabilities by inspecting one of your own processes with grep Cap /proc/<pid>/status . This should show your all enabled capabilities. For systemd units the CapabilityBoundingSet and related options are responsible for handling capabilities. In this...

Full answer by cobalt.rocks: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1768286 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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