[Freeipa-users] Sudo documentation correction (sudo 1.7.4p-5 update breaks working configuration)

[Martin Kosek]

On 07/11/2012 12:02 PM, James Hogarth wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Having just spent an hour debugging this during my centos6.2 to
> centos6.3 updates here's a heads up for others and a correction to the
> documentation at docs.redhat.com ....
> 
> The update to sudo mentioned changed sudo to use /etc/sudo-ldap.conf
> for a ldap-backed sudo configuration instead of /etc/nslcd.conf but
> did not copy an existing /etc/nslcd.conf into this new file and
> consequently disabled ldap-backed sudo.
> 
> The documentation in 13.4.2 still refers to /etc/nslcd.conf for RHEL6
> based systems - which is obviously incorrect now....
> 
> This documentation would probably be best to have a note added that
> between 6.2 and 6.3 (or even specify the sudo revisions) that the
> configuration file has changed.
> 
> James
> 

Thanks for pointing that out. Btw. there is a relevant Bugzila that should
cover this deficiency:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835515

Please feel free to comment if you found any relevant issues that are not
covered with this Bugzilla.

Martin