Re: ubuntu sudoers won't talk to LDAP

--On Friday, November 19, 2010 2:23 PM -0500 bluethundr <bluethundr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hello Ubuntu > > On our network we have our sudoers stored in LDAP. This works fine on > the CentOS 5.4 clients by placing into /etc/ldap.conf > > > sudoers_base ou=sudoers,ou=Services,dc=example,dc=net > > > and in /etc/nsswitch.conf we have the entry: > > > sudoers: ldap > > > (setting this setting to just 'ldap' instead of 'files ldap' does not > render the machine unbootable as happens if you set passwd and group > this way). > > However I am attempting to set this up on an Ubuntu 9.10 client and > getting no joy so far. I have the same settings in /etc/ldap.conf and > /etc/nsswitch.conf and cannot get sudoers to work. > > On the Ubuntu box, I can get LDAP entries by typing in getent passwd | > grep ldapAccount, however when you attempt to sudo it fails: My guess would be that it is a different version of sudo. Have you read the manual page for it?

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