Why is sudo command failing with an error "sudo: /bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set"?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • sudo is failing with
sudo: /bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • sudo

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