Comment 6 for bug 553786

I've just been bitten by this bug yet again. I've had to request to my administrator to reboot our server into recovery mode to remove the file. Why isn't a bug that locks administrators out of the operating system (in an otherwise well-configured environment) not considered a critical bug? The only workaround I can think of is to know in advance that creating a file in /etc/sudoers.d might cause lockouts, so keep a separate shell as root... but I don't always remember to do that.

I would be grateful if someone would please fix this.