[Freeipa-users] sudo and NIS domain name
Rob Crittenden
rcritten at redhat.com
Fri May 9 02:22:16 UTC 2014
Dean Hunter wrote:
> 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.
>
It is incomplete at best. There is no user dean mentioned in those
rules, where does that come from? Some group membership I can only assume.
Does getent netgroup servers or desktops actually return a valid tuple?
rob
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