[Freeipa-users] Sudo rule processing order

Martin Kosek mkosek at redhat.com
Fri Jan 10 14:59:24 UTC 2014


On 01/10/2014 11:52 AM, Fred van Zwieten wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a sudo rule in IPA that has the !authenticate option added to enable
> admins to execute certain programs as root without authentication.
> 
> It doesn't work. There is another rule for the admins that allow all
> commands as long as they give their password.
> 
> In a sudoers file, you can solve this by specifing the nopasswd rule as
> last.
> 
> sudo -l from an IPA-client gives me this:
> 
> *******@svr001 ~]$ sudo -l
> Matching Defaults entries for ******* on this host:
>     requiretty, !visiblepw, always_set_home, env_reset, env_keep="COLORS
>     DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC KDEDIR LS_COLORS", env_keep+="MAIL PS1
>     PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE", env_keep+="LC_COLLATE
>     LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES", env_keep+="LC_MONETARY
>     LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE", env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL
>     LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY",
>     secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin
> 
> User ******** may run the following commands on this host:
>     (root) NOPASSWD: ALL
>     (root) /bin/cat, /bin/egrep, /bin/find, /bin/grep, /bin/ls, /bin/more,
>     /usr/bin/less, !/bin/su
>     (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cobbler
>     (root) !/bin/su
> 
> I want the cobbler command to run without password authentication. What am
> I doing wrong?
> 

Would setting SUDO rule order help?

# ipa sudorule-mod -h
...
  --order=INT           integer to order the Sudo rules
...

Martin




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