Sudo Problem

[frederick hannah]

I get "user not in sudoers files" attempting to run a command with a select userid. The userid is in the sudoers file, but it seems as thought sudo doesnt "see it". How can I resolve this issue?

[RAC_1]

Does userid match exactly in sudoers file??

Can you execute the command with sudo -u "user_id" command??

Anil

[vinodan]

Dear Frederick,
What sudo -l command shows?
.Normally it should display the commands
that the particaular user is allowed to execute.

vinod

[frederick hannah]

No, i cant execute sudo - u "user_id" command without a security violation

[frederick hannah]

sudo -l states "that user is not allow to use sudo on the node." I added the users via "visudo". Did I miss a step?

[RAC_1]

How does your sudoers line for this user looks like??

Should be as follows.

user_name "host_name" command1, command2

[Sudeesh]

I faced this issue few times due to UID duplication. After logging with the user name use "id" commnd to confirm you have the same uid as specified in sudoers file.


Sudeesh

[frederick hannah]

S,

My sudoers file doesnt have uid info in it. I will compare sudoers files on different systems to see what may be wrong in my case.

[Sudeesh]

Hi,

I think my last post confused a bit.
As you said sudoers file will not contain any UID info.

What I wanted you to do is:

Login as the user to whom you are giving sudo access. Execute id commnad and verify the uid shown matches what the user have in /etc/passwd file. If they are diffrent, points to a UID duplication in passwd file. In such cases sudo will fail.


[rx260-01]/ >id
uid=1000(sudhi) gid=3(sys)
[rx260-01]/ >cat /etc/passwd|grep sudhi
sudhi::1000:3::/:/sbin/sh


Sudeesh

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

In all such scenarios, sudoers file is found culprit. Can you post the contents here? It will help us to provide some help.

HTH,
Devender

[frederick hannah]

There is no uid conflict Sudeesh. I check "id" against" grep ahdadmin /etc/passwd. Attached is a copy of visudo. My id is ahdadmin.

[Devender Khatana]

Hi,

The attachement is not getting opened. Just check.

Regards,
Devender