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Bug 1303176

Summary:	Installation/configuration limited to non-root users for auditing purposes
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Matthew Harmsen <mharmsen>
Component:	pki-core	Assignee:	Matthew Harmsen <mharmsen>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Asha Akkiangady <aakkiang>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.3	CC:	arubin, nkinder
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	7.3
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Description Matthew Harmsen 2016-01-29 18:46:22 UTC

This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/pki/ticket/1483

 For auditing purposes, what I'd expect the installation to work (and what should be tested) is for a non-root user to be able to run pkispawn and install successfully.  After installation completion, only the installation user has access to his/her admin pkcs12.
Same with starting/restarting the server.

It could be just some sudo configuration that narrow down sudo so that some are allowed only to install/start/restart pki servers, and then another to edit pki instance configurations.

Comment 2 Nathan Kinder 2016-06-15 18:09:49 UTC

There is really nothing to fix here.  Installation of RHCS requires root permission (direct or via sudo).  Using sudo should work just fine, but that is a procedural/system issue and not a code issue that requires a bug.