Workaround broken sudo?
- by perreal
I managed to break sudo by deleting the libc.so.6 sym-link in /lib. I copied the actual file and created a symbolic link with the same name under my home directory by using LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libc-2.11.3.so. At this point, all binaries linking libc are working through preload except sudo. For sudo, I need to write (and don't know why):
$ /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --library-path . /usr/bin/sudo
but this gives me:
$ sudo: must be setuid root
Checking the permissions:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/sudo
$ -rwsr-xr-x 2 root root 166120
So the setuid bit is actually set.
Question:
I need to create a symbolic link named /lib/libc.so.6 through my active ssh connection without using sudo, or, make sudo work somehow. I don't have the root password and I can't connect through ssh anymore. Is there any other way I can get authorization?
