pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [asteriskpbx]

Question

to install the asterisk program, I created a sudo user and added to /etc/sudoers file like this:

asteriskpbx ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

but, when I try to start the service, I get the following report:

Jun 15 15:18:03 localhost.localdomain sudo[1023]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Jun 15 15:18:03 localhost.localdomain sudo[1023]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [asteriskpbx]

why can't it login? I have already added to the sudoers file to use no password.

Answer 1

What did you use to create the user?

My preliminary test shows that a simple

useradd <login>
visudo 
# in visudo
<login> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
# save and exit visudo

# as another user 
$ sudo -u <login> hostname -f
$ sudo -u <login> -s

Should work without any further problems, what does the asterisk log tells you ?

Did you by any chance set a password on that new user ?

Remember <login> is a placeholder, please change it to what you feel needed, and I would recommend you to use useradd -r <login> as -r is system account.

What shell is your account using, the account that is not able to start up asterisk? Look in /etc/passwd

Do you use LDAP on your network and did you configure your machine to lookup using LDAP?