[sudo-users] sudo: uid XXXX does not exist in the passwd file!

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:28:40PM +0100, rhatuk wrote:
> hi chaps,
> I've a RHEL4 sudo ldap client authenticating against an ldap directory
> server where I'm currently being able to authenticate and list users using
> getent passwd, groups, etc., with no problem.
> 
> I've setup some sudo entries on the directory, and run some tests using
> local users (/etc/passwd users).
> 
> however, when I try to do the same with an authenticated ldap user, I got a
> "sudo: uid XXX does not exist in the passwd file!"
> 
> I've check the source code and this seems to be caught when running the
> "getpwnam()" function; couldnt find documentation about if this function
> ends up using PAM modules to gather info about the passwd database or if it
> just tries to read /etc/passwd.
> 
> I've strace'd it and can sudo trying to connect to the directory server,
> also when debugging the directory server transactions I see some queries,
> but still can make it work right...
> 
> any ideas? :)

Is the sudo pam file using pam_ldap as well?

Also, are you using some sort of tls/ssl config?