IPA sudo error sudo: ldap_sasl_bind_s(): Invalid credentials

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When attempting to connect run sudo commands on a client that is using IPA for sudo rules the debug messages show:

sudo: ldap_initialize(ld, ldap://ipaserver.example.com)
sudo: ldap_set_option: debug -> 0
sudo: ldap_set_option: ldap_version -> 3
sudo: ldap_set_option: tls_checkpeer -> 1
sudo: ldap_set_option: tls_cacertfile -> /etc/ipa/ca.crt
sudo: ldap_set_option: tls_cacert -> /etc/ipa/ca.crt
sudo: ldap_set_option: timelimit -> 15
sudo: ldap_set_option(LDAP_OPT_NETWORK_TIMEOUT, 5)
sudo: ldap_start_tls_s() ok
sudo: ldap_sasl_bind_s(): Invalid credentials
[sudo] password for test_user:
test_user is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • IPA/IdM

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