How to fix /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line number

sudo ubuntu-18.04 nano sudoers
Dcoder14 picture Dcoder14 · Oct 2, 2019 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I am new to Ubuntu. And as while editing anything in visual studio code, I had to enter password. so for that I tried to change in sudoers file but after that I am unable to find what happened and also getting error like below.

I used the command to change i

sudo nano -w /etc/sudoers

after which i pressed ctrl+x

/etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 26 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 26
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Thank you.

Answer

Scott picture Scott · Oct 2, 2019

Edit:

On your terminal type:

pkexec nano /etc/sudoers

It will open the file and you can edit now. To save and exit the file, just press:

Ctrl+X

And it will ask you if you wanna save the file. So type: Y and Enter. Done!!!

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