Hi,

The following troubleshooting page may help:
https://sssd.io/troubleshooting/sudo.html

On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM Andreas Bulling via FreeIPA-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been running FreeIPA without major issues for years, connecting
> various Ubuntu machines as clients - most running Ubuntu 24.
>
> I upgraded three of them to Ubuntu 26 today and noticed that, while I can
> still login using SSH (public-key auth), sudo is not working anymore. I
> have not touched the sudoers configuration on the FreeIPA server side - I
> just updated Ubuntu on these three servers. Those running Ubuntu 24 are
> still working fine incl. sudo
>
> This is what I see in /var/log/auth.log
>
> 2026-07-17T16:57:52.122663+02:00 cloud sshd-session[3029]: Accepted
> publickey for REDACTED from REDACTED port 53988 ssh2: RSA REDACTED
> 2026-07-17T16:57:52.138883+02:00 cloud sshd-session[3029]:
> pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user REDACTED(uid=REDACTED) by
> REDACTED(uid=0)
> 2026-07-17T16:57:52.162575+02:00 cloud systemd-logind[1387]: New session
> '34' of user 'REDACTED' with class 'user' and type 'tty'.
> 2026-07-17T16:57:52.213586+02:00 cloud (systemd):
> pam_sss(systemd-user:account): Access denied for user REDACTED: 6
> (Permission denied)
> 2026-07-17T16:57:52.213829+02:00 cloud (systemd): PAM PAM failed:
> Permission denied
>
> Not sure which other logfiles might be useful for debugging - here are two
> that are probably involved:
>
> # /etc/nsswitch.conf
> #
> # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
> # If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
> # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
>
> passwd:         files systemd sss
> group:          files systemd sss
> shadow:         files sss
> gshadow:        files
>
> hosts:          files dns
> networks:       files
>
> protocols:      db files
> services:       db files sss
> ethers:         db files
> rpc:            db files
>
> netgroup:       nis sss
> sudoers:        files sss
> automount:      sss
>
>
> ii  freeipa-client                          4.13.1-1
>              amd64        FreeIPA centralized identity framework -- client
> ii  freeipa-common                          4.13.1-1
>              all          FreeIPA centralized identity framework -- common
> files
>
> sudo -l
> sudo: Sorry, user REDACTED may not run sudo on REDACTED.
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