Description of problem: Image Builder allows creating user and adding it to the wheel group which in turn allows the user to become root (sudo su -). Currently there seems to be no way to allow a created user to become root without providing the user's password. Using automation tools such as Ansible is more feasible with setup and doesn't force users to do it for each system afterwards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 8.5
Hello Tom, we have this in our EC2 images, right? What about other images? Was there some kind of consensus on how we should handle this? Thanks!
(In reply to Ondřej Budai from comment #2) > Hello Tom, > > we have this in our EC2 images, right? What about other images? Was there > some kind of consensus on how we should handle this? The password-less sudo for the default user in EC2 images is configured by cloud-init. AFAIK, we currently don't have any way to achieve this for custom users. There were some discussions about this in the past, but no real consensus or agreement. Nevertheless there is definitely a demand to allow this in composer / image-builder.
Since 8.8/9.2, this can be achieved via the custom files customization: [[customizations.files]] path = "/etc/sudoers.d/wheel-passwordless-sudo" mode = "0400" data = """ %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL """ Marko, would that work for you?
Yes, that looks reasonable, thanks!