[Freeipa-users] Cockpit with (Free)IPA admin users

[Martin Štefany]

On St, 2015-10-21 at 09:32 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:25:56PM +0200, Martin Štefany wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > did anybody manage to get FreeIPA admin user (member of admins
> > group,
> > full sudo access, etc.) to be also Cockpit user with administrative
> > privileges? I've already figured out that it's closely related to
> > Polkit, but since FreeIPA and Polkit are not fully 'friendly' yet...
> > I
> > was not able to get a working configuration.
> > 
> > Some version / configuration details:
> > $ cat /etc/centos-release
> > CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
> > 
> > $ rpm -q ipa-client
> > ipa-client-4.1.0-18.el7.centos.4.x86_64
> > 
> > $ rpm -q cockpit   # from sgallagh's COPR repository
> > cockpit-0.80-1.el7.centos.x86_64
> > 
> > $ rpm -q polkit
> > polkit-0.112-5.el7.x86_64
> > 
> > $ sudo ls /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/
> > 40-freeipa.rules  49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules  50-default.rules
> > 
> > $ sudo cat /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-freeipa.rules
> > polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
> >     return ["unix-group:admins", "unix-group:wheel"];
> > });
> > 
> > $ sudo ls /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/
> > 40-custom.conf
> > 
> > $ sudo cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/40-custom.conf
> > [Configuration]
> > AdminIdentities=unix-group:admins;unix-group:wheel
> > 
> > $ ipa user-show martin | grep groups
> >   Member of groups: trust admins, ipausers, admins, ...
> > 
> > Cockpit logs me in automatically using Kerberos (GSSAPI), but I
> > can't
> > perform administrative tasks, cannot see journald, etc.
> > 
> > One thing that I thought to cause the issue is that pkexec is asking
> > me
> > select user first, instead of asking/not asking for password:
> > $ pkexec cockpit-bridge
> > ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.policykit.exec ===
> > Authentication is needed to run `/usr/bin/cockpit-bridge' as the
> > super
> > user
> > Multiple identities can be used for authentication:
> >  1.  Martin Štefany (martin)
> >  2.  ...
> >  3.  ...
> > Choose identity to authenticate as (1-3): 1
> > Password: 
> > ==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
> > cockpit-bridge: no option specified
> > 
> > and documentation claims that sudo / pkexec should not ask for
> > password
> > for particular user, but 1. I don't like that idea; 2. I have
> > regular
> > 1000:1000 user in wheel group for whom everything works just fine -
> > sudo
> > and pkexec ask for password as expected, and still in cockpit admin
> > stuff works as expected.
> 
> Can you add the admin user to the wheel group on the Cockpit machine?
> 
> But in general I think you're looking for:
>     https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/GroupMerging
> first round of patches is ready, although it still needs to go through
> upstream review (IIRC).
> 

Hello Jakub,

adding specific user to local wheel group works, thank you. But it also
requires local intervention on the system(s), and on per-user basis.

Only limitation detail I see now with PolicyKit is that user is granted
full admin rights via pkexec either when custom /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40
-freeipa.rules is defined or when glibc group merging is merged. If I
understand https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/5350 correctly, this
will be sort-of addressed based on hostgroups, but it will still give
more control over the system than sudo would do, won't it?

Thank you.
Martin








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