I screwed up sudoers and I haven't root access (remote server).

This is the hard way to learn when you MUST use visudo, specially in a remote server. That's right. I did something stupid like:

and now have:

So what if I have locked the root account (passwd -l root) and now I can't do su to fix sudoers file???

As i said this is in a remote server (VPS) so I can not use recovering special tools via CD or similar.

thanks.-

 

no recovery mode or something like that?

the thing is that it supposed to be nothing that you can do if you do not have recovery terminal.

 

You can boot from a recovery or live CD and try to fix the file. This should give you the idea: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-reset-a-forgotten-root-password-with-knoppix

 

???not really helping.

 

Thanks for your answers.
Yes, I do not have physical access.
I am thinking in trying code some simple routine (as I have ssh access as user at least ) using something like http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/getpwent.3.html
Obviously I am not hurry and may be fun. Any idea to start?
Thanks.-

 

Update

What a odyssey! I was thinking in very rare things to solve this.
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Solution:
I have webmin installed. So as the root account WAS locked, I have another webmin user with access to all modules.
Webmin > Users and Groups > root account > password: No password required
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Can you believe it?

 

no. thats too much luck for you :-D

 

Why? He could boot from a live system, mount his hard drive and then try to fix /etc/sudoers.