Re: ubuntu sudoers won't talk to LDAP

[Stef Coene <stef.coene@docum.org>]

On Friday 19 November 2010, bluethundr 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.
I have 10.10 on my laptop and there is a separate ldap version of sudo: sudo-
ldap.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/sudo-ldap


Stef