[sos-devel] sos collect: becoming root without password

[Adrian Moreno]

On 5/18/21 3:57 PM, Jake Hunsaker wrote:
> --become means "once on the node, actually become the root user, don't use
> sudo". Akin to running "su - " yourself. It's for scenarios where sudo is not
> configured for the ssh-user.
> 

I knew I was missing something!
Thank you very much Jake.

> If you drop --become, then collect will use sudo for the commands requiring root
> privileges, and the `--nopasswd-sudo` option is used to skip the prompt for the
> sudo password.
> 
> On 5/18/21 9:23 AM, Adrian Moreno wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to run "sos collect" (4.1) to ssh into my node and gather the logs as
>> root.
>>
>> I'm doing so by running:
>>
>> sos collect --become --ssh-user heat-admin --nopasswd-sudo --nodes ${NODE_IP}
>>
>> But sos prompts me for the root password of user "head-admin" in the node:
>>
>> sos-collector ASSUMES that SSH keys are installed on all nodes unless the
>> --password option is provided.
>>
>> User heat-admin will attempt to become root. Provide root password:
>>
>> Isn't "--nopasswd-sudo" supposed to mean "I don't need password to use sudo"
>> (which is my case)?
>>
>> I'm sure I'm missing something, can someone help me out?
>>
>> Thanks
> 

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Adrián Moreno