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How to boot into single user mode in Linux Mint 18

I am using Linux OSMint on my office laptop and there are two user accounts on it. one is the director's account and the other is mine. Although I did sudo command on the terminal before now I cant.It shows below error

chathurika@sanjayak-HP-Notebook ~ $ sudo su
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set

To fix the permissions of sudo one told to Boot into single-user mode and do chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo. I am new to these things. How to do that. Below I have mentioned OS released details

  • NAME="Linux Mint"
  • VERSION="18 (Sarah)"
  • ID=linuxmint
  • ID_LIKE=ubuntu
  • PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18"
  • VERSION_ID="18"
  • HOME_URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/"
  • SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.linuxmint.com/"
  • BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/"
  • UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

How to boot into single user mode in Linux 18

I am using Linux OS on my office laptop and there are two user accounts on it. one is the director's account and the other is mine. Although I did sudo command on the terminal before now I cant.It shows below error

chathurika@sanjayak-HP-Notebook ~ $ sudo su
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set

To fix the permissions of sudo one told to Boot into single-user mode and do chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo. I am new to these things. How to do that. Below I have mentioned OS released details

  • NAME="Linux Mint"
  • VERSION="18 (Sarah)"
  • ID=linuxmint
  • ID_LIKE=ubuntu
  • PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18"
  • VERSION_ID="18"
  • HOME_URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/"
  • SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.linuxmint.com/"
  • BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/"
  • UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

How to boot into single user mode in Linux Mint 18

I am using Linux Mint on my office laptop and there are two user accounts on it. one is the director's account and the other is mine. Although I did sudo command on the terminal before now I cant.It shows below error

chathurika@sanjayak-HP-Notebook ~ $ sudo su
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set

To fix the permissions of sudo one told to Boot into single-user mode and do chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo. I am new to these things. How to do that. Below I have mentioned OS released details

  • NAME="Linux Mint"
  • VERSION="18 (Sarah)"
  • ID=linuxmint
  • ID_LIKE=ubuntu
  • PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18"
  • VERSION_ID="18"
  • HOME_URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/"
  • SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.linuxmint.com/"
  • BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/"
  • UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
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How to boot into single user mode in Linux 18

I am using Linux OS on my office laptop and there are two user accounts on it. one is the director's account and the other is mine. Although I did sudo command on the terminal before now I cant.It shows below error

chathurika@sanjayak-HP-Notebook ~ $ sudo su
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set

To fix the permissions of sudo one told to Boot into single-user mode and do chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo. I am new to these things. How to do that. Below I have mentioned OS released details

  • NAME="Linux Mint"
  • VERSION="18 (Sarah)"
  • ID=linuxmint
  • ID_LIKE=ubuntu
  • PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18"
  • VERSION_ID="18"
  • HOME_URL="http://www.linuxmint.com/"
  • SUPPORT_URL="http://forums.linuxmint.com/"
  • BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/"
  • UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial