Bugzilla – Bug 414
Getting the error unable to cache group <groun_name> already exists
Last modified: 2010-07-09 10:35:46 MDT
after upgrading from 1.6.8 to 1.7.2 of sudo we are getting the following error "sudo: unable to cache group VAS Test 2, already exists" It appears to only manifest itself when groups that are part of the Active Directory integration tool Quest. I am unaware of how to query the cache that is being checked to verify if group already exists.
Does this still happen if you use the Quest version of sudo from http://rc.quest.com/topics/sudo/ ?
Using the quest version of sudo we do not see the error. I have been able to reproduce the error consistently by issuing `sudo -l` however getting a consistent error when issuing normal commands via sudo has been difficult. It appears that if the same group is listed more then once on separate lines I can reproduce the error. $ /opt/quest/bin/sudo -l Enter your password: Matching Defaults entries for test on this host: User test may run the following commands on this host: (oracle) ALL $ /usr/bin/sudo -l Enter your password: Matching Defaults entries for test on this host: User test may run the following commands on this host: sudo: unable to cache group VAS Test 2, already exists $
This should be fixed in sudo 1.7.2p8, can you give that a try?
I confirmed that this issue is resolved in 1.7.2p8 Red Hat 5 newest version is sudo-1.7.2p1-7 so i will somehow have to encourage them to update to a newer build.