Bug 2263953

Summary:	remote_execution_effective_user_password no longer work when switching from one user to another
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	matt jia <mjia>
Component:	Remote Execution	Assignee:	satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED MIGRATED	QA Contact:	Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
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Version:	6.14.1	CC:	akapse, aruzicka, jpasqual, rlavi, wclark
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Description matt jia 2024-02-12 23:22:33 UTC

Description of problem:

As $subject and this stops working from 6.12 upwards.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Easy

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a regular user (rexuser) on a system
2. On the same system create another user that will be the effective_user 
3. Allow ssh key to login with first user
4. Define a password for the effective_user
5. On Satellite, define the effective user method to su
6. Define the remote_execution_effective_user_password on satellite
7. try running a simple job

Actual results:
On Satellite:

su: Authentication failure

On the host /var/log/secure:

unix_chkpwd[20384]: password check failed for user (test)
su: pam_unix(su-l:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=0 tty= ruser=rexuser rhost=  user=test

Expected results:

remote_execution_effective_user_password should take effect
 
Additional info:

Comment 2 Adam Ruzicka 2024-02-15 16:06:56 UTC

Also, from what I've seen this is specific to using su. Changing effective user with sudo and password should work

Comment 5 Eric Helms 2024-06-06 17:02:45 UTC

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