[Linux-disciples] sudoers/su mistake

[Stephen R Laniel]

This is a FreeBSD question, but I assume it carries over to
Linux without much change.

I had configured /etc/sudoers so that the group %admin had
full root privileges, until someone mentioned that the group
'wheel' is the default FreeBSD way of doing what I wanted.
So I went into visudo, changed '%admin' to '%wheel' ... and
thereby locked myself out of sudo, because I was a member of
%admin and not of %wheel. So I tried to log in as root to
fix the problem, but I got

(10:11) slaniel at platform:~$ su root
su: Sorry

Same thing happens if I do just 'su'.

I can't reboot the machine, because it's a high-load
production machine. How do I get back into /etc/sudoers?

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Stephen R. Laniel
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