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Bug 1135531

Summary: sudo with ldap doesn't work with 'user id' in sudoUser option
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: David Spurek <dspurek>
Component: sudoAssignee: Daniel Kopeček <dkopecek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.6CC: dapospis, pkis, pvrabec
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, Reopened
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: sudo-1.8.6p3-21.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1135539 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-10 21:42:58 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1135539, 1217621    
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Description David Spurek 2014-08-29 14:30:03 UTC
Description of problem:
sudo with ldap doesn't work with 'user id' in sudoUser option

set 'sudouser: ldap' in /etc/nsswitch.conf

[test]id userallowed
uid=10001(userallowed) gid=20001(groupallowed) groups=20001(groupallowed)

dn: cn=rule1,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
cn: rule1
sudoHost: ALL
sudoCommand: ALL
sudoUser: #10001

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sudo-1.8.6p3-15.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.su - userallowed -c 'sudo true'
2.
3.

Actual results:
user isn't allowed to run sudo

Expected results:
user is allowed to run sudo


Additional info:

Comment 4 Daniel Kopeček 2015-02-24 15:26:16 UTC
From the logs:
Aug 17 12:53:09 sudo[6575] <- sudo_ldap_lookup @ ./ldap.c:2480 := 64

In this case, the return value of 64 means:

FLAG_NO_HOST 0x040

and therefore no matching rules were found. Looks like a misconfiguration. Closing as not a bug. Reopen if you get the same results after ensuring that sudo is processing some rules and they don't match the user id...

Comment 5 David Spurek 2015-02-25 14:12:26 UTC
I think that this is a real bug.

If I change sudoUser: #10001 to sudoUser: userallowed then everything works correctly:

[test]getent passwd useralloweduserallowed:x:10001:20001:userallowed:/home/userallowed:/bin/bash

dn: cn=rule1,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
cn: rule1
sudoHost: ALL
sudoCommand: ALL
sudoUser: userallowed

[test]su - userallowed -c 'sudo true'su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/userallowed: No such file or directory
[test]echo $?
0

--------------------------------------------
# Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: Sudoers

# defaults, Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: cn=defaults,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
sudoOption: !authenticate
sudoOption: !requiretty
cn: defaults

# rule1, Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: cn=rule1,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
cn: rule1
sudoHost: ALL
sudoCommand: ALL
sudoUser: #10001


[test]su - userallowed -c 'sudo true'
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/userallowed: No such file or directory
userallowed is not allowed to run sudo on rhel6-6.  This incident will be reported.
[test]echo $?
1

------------------------------------
and with processing of other rules

[test]getent passwd userallowed2
userallowed2:usersecret:10003:20003:userallowed2:/home/userallowed2:/bin/bash

# Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: organizationalUnit
ou: Sudoers

# defaults, Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: cn=defaults,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
sudoOption: !authenticate
sudoOption: !requiretty
cn: defaults

# rule1, Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: cn=rule1,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
cn: rule1
sudoHost: ALL
sudoCommand: ALL
sudoUser: #10001

# rule2, Sudoers, my-domain.com
dn: cn=rule2,ou=Sudoers,dc=my-domain,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: sudoRole
cn: rule2
sudoHost: ALL
sudoCommand: ALL
sudoUser: userallowed2


[test]su - userallowed -c 'sudo true'su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/userallowed: No such file or directory
userallowed is not allowed to run sudo on rhel6-6.  This incident will be reported.
[test]echo $?
1
[test]su - userallowed2 -c 'sudo true'
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/userallowed2: No such file or directory
[test]echo $?
0

Comment 9 Daniel Kopeček 2015-12-14 09:16:28 UTC
Created attachment 1105522 [details]
proposed patch

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 21:42:58 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0853.html