Overview

While attempting to run your workload in Kubernetes, the client workload POD is returning the following error message, "sudo: you do not exist in the passwd database".

Applies To

• Kubernetes
• Edge Components

Cause

• POD level SecurityContext was set with value runAsUser: 1000
• Container - SecurityContext

Solution

There might be a conflict worth investigating between your POD security context and container security context. Here, POD level SecurityContext was set with runAsUser: 1000 instead of at the container level SecurityContext.  

Modify your POD and Container SecurityContext as referenced below.

E.g.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: security-context-example
spec:
  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 1000  PLEASE REMOVE
    runAsGroup: 3000 PLEASE REMOVE
...
containers:
  - name: sec-ctx-demo
    image: busybox:1.28
    securityContext:
      allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
      runAsUser: 1000 PLEASE ADD
...