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| author | Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> |
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| date | Sat, 29 Sep 2018 05:58:33 +0200 |
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| 1 Title: Fixing the dreaded "problem with defaults entries" in debian | |
| 2 Date: 2018-09-29 | |
| 3 Lang: en | |
| 4 Tags: Debian | |
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| 6 At work we host a number of [Debian](https://www.debian.org/) VMs. Most of them are integrated into the central active directory server using the [sssd](https://packages.debian.org/jessie/utils/sssd) package. | |
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| 8 Quite unrelatedly my boss kept nagging me about incoming emails to root that looked like this | |
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| 10 Subject: *** SECURITY information for <host> *** | |
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| 12 <host> : Sep 29 05:45:42 : user : problem with defaults entries ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/user ; | |
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| 14 I found the relationship between sssd and the eMails only after some heavy googling: the sssd package modifies `/etc/nsswitch.conf` and adds the sssd as the source for sudoers. | |
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| 16 Since we do not keep that info in active directory anyway the fix is easy - simply remove the sssd config for sudoers and enjoy a quiet life without security emails. |