[Freeipa-users] Sudo not working

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Wed Oct 31 18:20:00 UTC 2012


Bret Wortman wrote:
> F17.

I think you want /etc/ldap.conf then. The easiest way to be sure the 
right file is being used is to add sudoers_debug 1 to the file. This 
will present a lot of extra output so you'll know the file is being read.

rob

>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com
> <mailto:rcritten at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Bret Wortman wrote:
>
>         I had enabled debugging of sudo but am not clear on where that
>         debugging
>         is going. It's not stdout, and I'm not seeing anything in
>         /var/log/messages.
>
>         I'll try switching to SSS and see what that gets me.
>
>
>     What distro is this? If it is RHEL 6.3 then put the configuration
>     into /etc/sudo-ldap.conf instead of /etc/nslcd. The docs are
>     incorrect (we are working on getting them fixed).
>
>     rob
>
>
>
>         On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Stephen Gallagher
>         <sgallagh at redhat.com <mailto:sgallagh at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:sgallagh at redhat.com <mailto:sgallagh at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>
>              On Wed 31 Oct 2012 11:53:15 AM EDT, Bret Wortman wrote:
>
>                  I'm pretty certain there's a painfully simple solution
>         to this that
>                  I'm not seeing, but my current configuration isn't
>         picking up the
>                  freeipa sudoer rule that I've set.
>
>                  /etc/nsswitch.conf specifies:
>                    sudoers:    files ldap
>
>                  /etc/nslcd.conf contains:
>
>                  binddn
>         uid=sudo,cn=sysaccounts,cn=____etc,dc=wedgeofli,dc=me
>
>                  bindpw password
>
>                  ssl start_tls
>                  tls_cacertfile /etc/ipa/ca.crt
>                  tls_checkpeer yes
>
>                  bind_timelimit 5
>                  timelimit 15
>
>                  uri ldap://fs1.wedgeofli.me <http://fs1.wedgeofli.me>
>         <http://fs1.wedgeofli.me>
>                  <http://fs1.wedgeofli.me>
>
>                  sudoers_base ou=SUDOers,dc=wedgeofli,dc=me
>
>
>                  The sssd_DOMAIN.log file contains this when I try to sudo:
>
>
>              <snip>
>
>              The SSSD logs aren't showing anything wrong because they have
>              nothing to do with the execution of the SUDO rules in this
>              situation. All the SSSD is doing is verifying the
>         authentication
>              (when sudo prompts you for your password).
>
>              The problem with the rule is most likely happening inside SUDO
>              itself. When you specify 'sudoers: files, ldap' in
>         nsswitch.conf,
>              it's telling SUDO to use its own internal LDAP driver to
>         look up the
>              rules. So you need to check sudo logs to see what's happening
>              (probably you will need to enable debug logging in
>         /etc/sudo.conf).
>
>              Recent versions of SUDO (1.8.6 and later) have support for
>         setting
>              'sudoers: files, sss' in nsswitch.conf which DOES use SSSD
>         (1.9.0
>              and later) for lookups (and caching) of sudo rules.
>
>
>
>
>         --
>         Bret Wortman
>         The Damascus Group
>         Fairfax, VA
>         http://bretwortman.com/
>         http://twitter.com/BretWortman
>
>
>
>
>         --
>         Bret Wortman
>         The Damascus Group
>         Fairfax, VA
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>         http://twitter.com/BretWortman
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