[Freeipa-users] freeipa / sudo

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Thu Dec 11 15:38:42 UTC 2014


On 12/11/2014 08:08 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 12/11/2014 01:57 PM, Chris Card wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2014 09:42 AM, Chris Card wrote:
>>>>> On 12/10/2014 04:54 PM, Chris Card wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 12/10/2014 12:57 PM, Chris Card wrote:
>>>>>>> thanks Martin,
>>>>>>>>> I've installed freeipa 4.1.1 on Fedora 21, and successfully set up a freeipa server and a freeipa client machine.
>>>>>>>>> I've set up a user with ssh keys, and can successfully ssh onto the client machine.
>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to setup sudo rules so that if the user is in a given user group, then the user can run "sudo su -" on the client to become root.
>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>> [root at fedora21-freeipa log]# ipa hostgroup-show
>>>>>>>>> Host-group: cog
>>>>>>>>> Host-group: cog
>>>>>>>>> Member hosts: ipaclient21.testdomain21.com
>>>>>>>>> Member of Sudo rule: All
>>>>>>>>> [root at fedora21-freeipa log]# ipa sudorule-show All
>>>>>>>>> Rule name: All
>>>>>>>>> Enabled: TRUE
>>>>>>>>> Command category: all
>>>>>>>>> RunAs User category: all
>>>>>>>>> RunAs Group category: all
>>>>>>>>> User Groups: cog_rw
>>>>>>>>> Host Groups: cog
>>>>>>>>> Sudo Option: !authenticate
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> but this setup doesn't work, i.e. even though the user is in the user group and the client machine is in the host group, sudo su - fails. Is this a bug, or have I missed something?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Chris
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With FreeIPA 4.1.1, client sudo integration should be automatically configured,
>>>>>>>> so it should just work, including hostgroups. In your case, I would start with
>>>>>>>> investigating
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Troubleshooting#sudo_does_not_work_for_hostgroups
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If that does not help, I bet SSSD devs will ask for logs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've done the troubleshooting steps:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [root at ipaclient21 log]# nisdomainname
>>>>>>> testdomain21.com
>>>>>>> [root at ipaclient21 log]# getent netgroup cog
>>>>>>> cog (ipaclient21.testdomain21.com,-,testdomain21.com)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried adding sudoers_debug 2 to /etc/sudo-ldap.conf on the client machine, but I'm not sure if that's the right file (it didn't exist before).
>>>>>>> I have debug_level set to 9 in /etc/sssd/sssd.conf, so I can see some stuff in /var/log/sssd/sssd_testdomain21.com.log but no obvious error messages.
>>>>>> I worked out how to set up debug for sudo. sudoers_debug is deprecated now, but I created /etc/sssd.conf with a line
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Debug sudo /var/log/sudo_debug all at debug
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and I saw this in the debug output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] -> sudo_sss_check_host @ ./sssd.c:557
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] val[0]=+cog
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] -> addr_matches @ ./match_addr.c:189
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] -> addr_matches_if @ ./match_addr.c:61
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] <- addr_matches_if @ ./match_addr.c:99 := false
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] <- addr_matches @ ./match_addr.c:199 := false
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] -> netgr_matches @ ./match.c:899
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] <- netgr_matches @ ./match.c:918 := false
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] -> hostname_matches @ ./match.c:758
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] <- hostname_matches @ ./match.c:769 := false
>>>>>> Dec 10 15:42:57 sudo[10046] sssd/ldap sudoHost '+cog' ... not
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that the hostname command on the client was returning a short hostname, ipaclient21, instead of a FQDN, ipaclient21.testdomain21.com and when I forced the hostname to be the FQDN the sudo command worked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The short hostname comes from the fact that the client machine is an openstack instance, and that appears to be a feature of openstack instances :(
>>>>>
>>>>> So on the OpenStack instance, even "hostname -f" does not show the FQDN? If
>>>>> this is the case, I am not sure what we could do, sudo somehow needs to learn
>>>>> the FQDN.
>>>>>
>>>> I can set up the instance so that hostname -f returns the FQDN, but the only way I can get hostname to return the FQDN is if I explicitly run "hostname <FQDN>"; unfortunately this doesn't survive a reboot.
>>> You should be able to just set the hostname to /etc/hostname (for older
>>> platforms, it may also be in /etc/sysconfig/network) and it should survive the
>>> reboot. I do not think that OpenStack really cares that much what hostname did
>>> you set up in the system after the VM is created.
>>>
>>> At least my OpenStack VM with the FreeIPA demo works this way.
>>>
>> I found that simply editing /etc/hostname and rebooting didn't work, because cloud-init resets the hostname. But if I create the instance with a cloud-init script to set the hostname to the FQDN, and then reboot the instance after creation, /etc/hostname contains the FQDN and hostname returns the FQDN.
>>
>> Chris
> Ah, right. I just remembered I also need to set it up with cloud-init. This is
> the config I use for the FreeIPA demo:
>
> #cloud-config: FreeIPA cloud configuration
> hostname: ipa.demo1.freeipa.org
> fqdn: ipa.demo1.freeipa.org
> manage_etc_hosts: false
>
Is it worth a howto? Seems like  a valuable piece of info...


-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.




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