[Freeipa-users] sudo log errors

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Tue Jan 14 16:34:04 UTC 2014


On 01/14/2014 06:17 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> hi,
>
> after using sudo from ipa extensively I needed to configure a local
> user to also use sudo.
>
> This is for monitoring, we use nagios.
>
> It works but now I have lots of error messages in /var/log/messages
> like this one:
>
> sudo: GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide
> more information (Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_0' not found)
>
> Well, yes, obviously the nagios local user does not have a kerberos
> ticket. Why the error?
>
> I modified /etc/sudoers to allow the nagios user to not use a tty:
>
> Defaults:nagios !requiretty
>
> And have added nagios config files for sudo in /etc/sudoers.d/
>
> nagios  ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_logfiles
>
> In /etc/nsswitch.conf, sudo looks like this:
>
> sudoers:    files ldap
>
> Is there anything else I can do or do I just have to live with the
> error on syslog?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Groeten,
> natxo
>
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I wonder if putting this user into the local sssd provider would silence
it... Just a thought...

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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