amazon EC2. Problems with permissions

I don't have too much experiences with servers but I've tried to do something ;) I have my WP webpage on amazon EC2 and I wanted to edit some settings in php.ini through filezilla (sftp) But I had to set permissions to my user:

sudo chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user /etc

But now I can't even restart apache or set back permissions to root If i try to do something like this:

sudo chown -R root:root /etc

or

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

I see this information: "sudo: /etc/sudo.conf is owned by uid 500, should be 0 sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 500, should be 0 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin"

What can I do?


You should never do sudo chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user /etc . You have modified the permission settings of your entire /etc directory.

/etc is a very important folder for your operating system that's why you're getting the error.

launch a new instance and backup your source code from your previous instance and re-upload the code. let me know if you have any issues.

I'm not understanding why you can't modify your php.ini file? You need to ssh into the server and edit the file. If you can't do that, you need to move the file to the ftp folder where it's permissible, modify the file and put the file back to it's original location and restart apache .

Furthermore, I recommend you use Ubuntu for your Wordpress server rather than using Centos or Amazon Flavour of Linux.


There are two option which you can do.

  • Create a new instance on Amazon. Check the file permission on the new machine.

    cd /etc
    ls -lrt

  • This should give result like this

    -rw-r--r--  1 root root      2064 Nov 24  2006 netscsid.conf
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root      1343 Jan 10  2007 wodim.conf
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root       624 Aug  8  2007 mtools.conf
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root      2570 Aug  5  2010 locale.alias
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root       356 Jan  2  2012 bindresvport.blacklist
    -rw-r--r--  1 root root       349 Jun 26  2012 zsh_command_not_found
    

    Set the same permission on old EC2 instance one by one.

    Example

    chown -R root:root netscsid.conf

  • You could create a new setup.
  • PS: for future, You could use this command for changes in php.ini file rather than changing owner or permission.

    sudo vim /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
    

    The short answer is that chown -R is recursive and there are lots of utilities and other files and programs required for various operations, including sudo and su . Root is a special user with uid 0 , and that user has greater permissions, and the ability to perform certain operations, that ec2-user cannot. This means that undoing what you have done is not simple or straightforward.

    This is why the answers provided so far focus on a reinstallation of the operating system, which is what I would also recommend. It is likely faster.

    Another part of this answer is to not try and sftp into the server to change core files. It would require having an sftp login land at the root (or /etc) directory, and that is not a common configuration.

    Instead, use sftp or scp to copy changed files to a user directory, and them move them from a command prompt (ssh/bash shell). For simple textfile editing, it is easier to use a command line text editor such as nano which is more user friendly than some of the older editors.

    As well, the file itself does not nor should it have its permissions changed, rather, once logged in, use sudo or su to perform the operations. Example:

    ssh ec2-user@host.domain.tld 
    sudo su 
    nano /etc/php.ini
    
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