[sudo-users] "sudo -i" run time error

[Divya Thaluru]

I am using kernel 4.4.20 and sudo 1.8.15. And my linux distro is based on
systemd.

Workaround fixes my problem.  I can give more details if needed, to fix
this problem properly.

Thanks
Divya



On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:21 AM, Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com>
wrote:

> For some reason pam_open_session() is failing.  What version of
> Linux and sudo are you running?  Sudo 1.8.17 and higher should
> ignore pam_open_session() failures.
>
> If you have sudo 1.8.7 or higher you should be able to add a line
> like the following to sudoers:
>
> Defaults !pam_session
>
> to work around the problem.
>
>  - todd
>