[Freeipa-users] freeipa and sudo

Dean Hunter deanhunter at comcast.net
Mon Sep 9 15:53:02 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 11:35 +0200, Pavel Březina wrote:

> On 09/09/2013 12:26 AM, Dean Hunter wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 23:11 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 03:42:16PM -0500, Dean Hunter wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 2013-09-07 at 19:35 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On 09/07/2013 02:11 PM, Christian Horn wrote:
> >> > > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:06:37PM -0500, Dean Hunter wrote:
> >> > > >> Are [1] and[2] still the current and best sources of information for
> >> > > >> configuring sudo for use with the current release of FreeIPA on Fedora
> >> > > >> 19?
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> 1.
> >> > > >>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/FreeIPA_Guide/sudo.html
> >> > > >> 2.
> >> > > >>http://www.freeipa.org/images/7/77/Freeipa30_SSSD_SUDO_Integration.pdf
> >> > > > There is also the Identity_Management_Guide as part of the RHEL
> >> > > > product documentation:
> >> > > >https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/Identity_Management_Guide/index.html
> >> > > This and the pdf above are the latest word in this area.
> >> > >
> >> > > > Christian
> >> > > >
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> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Some sudo rules are causing:
> >> >
> >> >   [dean at desktop2 ~]$ sudo id
> >> >   sudo: internal error, tried to erealloc3(0)
> >>
> >> This is a known bug:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000389
> >>
> >> I think the sudo rules are just missing the sudoHost attribute.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > , but others do not.  In the trial and error process of determining
> >> > which rule specifications are causing the error, I have been restarting
> >> > the virtual machine I am using as the sudo client between tests.  Is
> >> > there a better way to clear the SSSD cache between trials to make sure I
> >> > am testing the most recent rule change?
> >>
> >> Unfortunately right now the only way is to rm the sssd cache which would
> >> also remove any cached credentials. I thought there was an RFE open to
> >> track the enhancement to make sss_cache invalidate and refresh sudo
> >> rules, but I can't find it now in the SSSD trac, so I filed another one:
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2081
> >>
> >> Worst case, we mark it as a duplicate.
> >>
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> >
> > I saw bug report 1000389, but I could not understand it or whether it
> > applied to me.
> >
> > I discovered that sudo rules for which I specified a host group caused
> > the error.  Rules with a host category of "all" instead of the host
> > group did not cause the error.  Is this what 1000389 says?
> >
> >    ipa sudorule-add            server-admins  --desc "Server Administrators"
> >    ipa sudorule-mod            server-admins  --cmdcat all
> > # ipa sudorule-add-host       server-admins  --hostgroups servers
> >    ipa sudorule-mod            server-admins  --hostcat all
> >    ipa sudorule-add-option     server-admins  --sudooption '!authenticate'
> >    ipa sudorule-add-runasuser  server-admins  --users root
> >    ipa sudorule-add-runasgroup server-admins  --groups root
> >    ipa sudorule-add-user       server-admins  --groups server-admins
> 
> Does the machine where sudo prints this error belongs to the hostgroup 
> 'servers'? If the answer is *no* then you are hitting 1000389.


Yes, the virtual machine where the sudo internal error occurs is a
member of the hostgroup.  So I guess this is a new error and should be
reported?


> > This problem exists with the latest updates on both Fedora 18 and Fedora 19.
> >
> > I also discovered that libsss_sudo.so is missing from  Fedora 18
> > installations.
> 
> It needs to be installed separately by installing libsss_sudo package.


Yes, I did find the package and installed it.


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