[Freeipa-users] Sudo rule still working after deactivation

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 05:26:32PM +0100, David Kreuter wrote:
> During our evaluation phase we're facing following problem. One particular user were granted sudo permission with the help of a sudo rule. The user can successfully access the host via SSH and switched to user root by using the sudo command, which was enabled for the user with the sudo rule. After that the sudo rule was disabled and the user tried to login again and switching to root was still possible.
> 
> After deleting the SSSD cache files and restarting the service sudo did not work anymore, as excepted.
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> How long does it take until the sudo rules are refreshed in SSSD cache? I know that there are three different refresh mechanism (full, smart, rule). Full and smart refresh mechanism are performed periodically dependent on the settings in SSSD configuration file and rule method should refresh the users's specific rules after each login, what apparently was not the case for my test scenario. Please correct me if i'm wrong. Of course I can set the interval for smart refresh to a minimum of 10 seconds, but this would cause a lot of traffic.
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> How can I configure SSSD to update the rules during each login of the user?

Hi David,

Pavel Brezina (CC-ed) would know for sure as he wrote the sudo
integration, but I think the trick could be to force the rules refresh
to run more often, as you noted, detecting the removed rules. 

I'd suggest to lower the entry_cache_sudo_timeout to make the rules expire
faster which would trigger the rules refresh which, if it detected rules
were removed would trigger the full refresh.

Currently there's no config option that would tie login and rules
refresh update.