Once upon a time, Bob Jewell <[email protected]> said:
> We had a number of 5.4 systems with ldap-driven sudo working.   After the 
> update to 5.5, we were required to add "sudoers: ldap" to /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> 
> I'm looking for some information on how to track down the cause of this 
> change in requirements.    (Nothing in the 5.5 release notes led me to 
> believe this would happen.)   
> 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf is part of the glibc package, and nothing in the glibc 
> changelog indicates anything related.   Would this be a change in pam?  or in 
> sudo?

It appears to be a change in sudo, which was upgraded from 1.6.9 to
1.7.2 (I'm guessing RH Bugzilla bug 500942 and/or 521903 have info, but
they are marked private).  You can see a brief description of the change
in /usr/share/doc/sudo-*/UPGRADE, but the full details are in the
WHATSNEW package in the sudo source (which the RHEL RPM doesn't
include).  You can see WHATSNEW in the online source tree browser here:

http://sudo.ws/repos/sudo/raw-file/ac30d2d89c1e/WHATSNEW

Yay for more undocumented and incompatible upgrades (especially in a
tool critical to system management for many) in what is supposed to be a
stable release of RHEL. :-(

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

_______________________________________________
rhelv5-list mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list

Reply via email to