[Freeipa-users] sudo and NIS domain name

Dean Hunter deanhunter at comcast.net
Fri May 9 00:46:05 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 10:02 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:

> Dean Hunter wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 22:50 +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> >> On (03/05/14 10:39), Dean Hunter wrote:
> >> >On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 12:36 +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On (01/05/14 15:53), Dean Hunter wrote:
> >> >> >On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 16:32 -0400, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> >> >> >> On 05/01/2014 04:07 PM, Dean Hunter wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> > I just noticed that I had been incorrectly setting the NIS domain
> >> >> >> > name since upgrading to Fedora 20 and FreeIPA 3.3.4, yet I appear to
> >> >> >> > be successfully retrieving and using sudo rules from FreeIPA.  Is
> >> >> >> > sudo still using NIS-style netgroups?  Is there still a requirement
> >> >> >> > to set the NIS domain name?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I think NIS domain is needed for netgroups. If you are not using
> >> >> >> netgroups in the sudo rules but just user groups you should be fine.
> >> >> >> Is this the case with you?
> >> >> >> If not please provide the logs and config.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >I am not aware of using netgroups, either the IPA object or any other
> >> >> >kind.  I just remember that when I was first configuring sudo to
> >> >> >retrieve rules from IPA it would not work until I set nisdomainname
> >> >> >in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  Here is the quote from section 14.4 of the
> >> >> >manual:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >        Even though sudo uses NIS-style netgroups, it is not necessary
> >> >> >        to have a NIS server installed. Netgroups require that a NIS
> >> >> >        domain be named in their configuration, so sudo requires that a
> >> >> >        NIS domain be named for netgroups. However, that NIS domain does
> >> >> >        not actually need to exist.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >With Fedora 20 I can no longer find the emulation of rc.local that
> >> >> >existed in Fedora 19.  I did find fedora-domainname.service and started
> >> >> >and enabled it but neglected to configure /etc/sysconfig/network.  Yet
> >> >> >IPA sudo rules appear to work.
> >> >> >
> >> >> Hope It helps you
> >> >>http://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2014-April/msg00248.html
> >> >>
> >> >> LS
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Thank you.  Now that you point it out, I remember that this thread is
> >> >where I first learned about fedora-domainname.service.  I see:
> >> >
> >> >        You would also need to set NIS domain name, otherwise SUDO will
> >> >        not correctly recognize SUDO rules targeted on host groups,
> >>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>                                                   This is important part
> >> >        instead of hosts:
> >> >
> >> >which explains when sudo would need the NIS domain name.  Since my sudo
> >> >rules address user groups I guess there is no requirement for NIS domain
> >> >name since they are working just fine:
> >> Your sudo rules use host groups.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add            desktop-admins --desc "Desktop
> >> >        Administrators"
> >> >        ipa sudorule-mod            desktop-admins --cmdcat all
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add-host       desktop-admins --hostgroups desktops
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add-option     desktop-admins --sudooption "!
> >> >        authenticate"
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add-runasuser  desktop-admins --users root
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add-runasgroup desktop-admins --groups root
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add-user       desktop-admins --groups
> >> >        desktop-admins
> >> >
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add            server-admins  --desc "Server
> >> >        Administrators"
> >> >        ipa sudorule-mod            server-admins  --cmdcat all
> >> >        ipa sudorule-add-host       server-admins  --hostgroups servers
> >> hostgroups are reason why you need to configure NIS domain name.
> >> hostgroups are also available as netgroups in compat tree and sudo reads
> >> information from netgroups.
> >>
> >> >        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
> >> >
> >> >However, I was really asking whether there had been a change in
> >> >sssd/sudo behavior as it was my recollection that my sudo rules did not
> >> >work at all in early IPA 3.n releases unless the NIS domain name was
> >> >configured.
> >> >
> >>
> >> LS
> >
> > I hear you and that is what I expected.  However, the actual behavior
> > seems to have changed with 3.3.4 and now 3.3.5.
> >
> >     [dean at desktop <mailto:dean at desktop> ~]$ domainname --nis
> >     domainname: Local domain name not set
> >
> >     [dean at desktop <mailto:dean at desktop> ~]$ sudo -l
> >     Matching Defaults entries for dean on desktop:
> >          requiretty, 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 dean may run the following commands on desktop:
> >          (root : root) NOPASSWD: ALL
> >
> >     [dean at desktop <mailto:dean at desktop> ~]$
> >
> > I think this is a good thing.  I would just like to confirm that this is
> > the new expected behavior and that I have not done something wrong.
> 
> We'd need to see your sudo rules to know for sure.
> 
> I don't think anything changed in the IPA code to change this behavior, 
> but we herd a lot of cats so something in another package may be different.
> 
> rob


The sudo rules are listed above.

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