After patching to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, sudo gives a permission denied error.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After upgrading a server to RHEL7.6, when we run sudo su - we receive the following error, even though we have sudo rule for user.

    sudo: PAM account management error: Permission denied
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.
  • sudo-1.8.23-1.el7 and later.

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