sudo: PAM account management error: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
Issue
- Getting an error on running
sudo
:
sudo: PAM account management error: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
- After patching following error is observed for
sudo
command for application user:
# sudo -u application_user sudo command
sudo: PAM account management error: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
/var/log/secure:
Feb 13 18:53:34 hostname sudo: pam_sss(sudo:account): Access denied for user application_user: 10 (User not known to the underlying authentication module)
Feb 13 18:53:34 hostname sudo: application_user : PAM account management error: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=command
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- sudo-1.8.23-3.el7.x86_64
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