[Freeipa-users] Wildcard type usage in sudo rules with FreeIPA.

[Lance Reed]

Thanks Dmitri!

That at least tells me to stop attempting things that are going to not work.
I will look into the automember info.
Currently I don't think that will work for us since we using IPA
essentially as just LDAP and not using the IPA client (but using SSSD
on the hosts) and I don't register hosts directly in IPA.  We did not
really want / need that extra overhead but did like the other
integrated components of IPA.

Thanks so much for the info.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/08/2015 10:00 AM, Lance Reed wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to figure out how (or if its even possible) to use
>> wildcard type sudo rules in FreeIPA.
>>
>> I setup Sudo rules usage and so far seems to be working - at least if
>> I setup ALL type rules for Hosts.
>>
>> However it looks like I have to add specifc allowed hosts in the GUI
>> as they either appear in the host list or add them in the External
>> option box.  However that makes it messy / non scalable if I want to
>> create a group of users that have access to a large number of host
>> types, say db servers or something.
>>
>> File based sudo rules allow for constructs such as:
>>
>> someusername *dbserver* = /opt/appname/admintools/run_admin_tools.sh
>>
>> Which allows someuser to have sudo options on any hostname matching
>> *dbserver* and then run the command allowed.  This all currently seems
>> doable in IPA except the wildcard part for hostnames / domains etc.
>>
>> Apologizes if I missed this in the docs.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any ideas (command line methods?)
>
>
> I think to solve this problem with IPA you need to define sudo rules for a
> host group "dbserver" (or whatever name you choose)
> and then use automemebership [1] rules to automatically manage the
> membership of you servers in that group.
> Starting 4.1 automembership rules can be reapplied to already existing
> entries. [2]. Before that the rules applied only to new entries being
> created.
>
> [1] - http://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/design/automember-design.html (I do
> not think there is an IPA design page but IPA uses DS plugin)
> [2] - http://www.freeipa.org/page/V4/Automember_rebuild_membership
>
>
> HTH
> Thanks
> Dmitri
>>
>>
>> Running:
>> ipa-server-3.0.0-37
>> sssd-1.9.2
>>
>
>
> --
> Thank you,
> Dmitri Pal
>
> Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
> Red Hat, Inc.
>
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