8.5. Creating a sudo rule on the CLI that runs a command as a service account on an IdM client


In IdM, you can configure a sudo rule with a RunAs alias to run a sudo command as another user or group. For example, you might have an IdM client that hosts a database application, and you need to run commands as the local service account that corresponds to that application.

Use this example to create a sudo rule on the command line called run_third-party-app_report to allow the idm_user account to run the /opt/third-party-app/bin/report command as the thirdpartyapp service account on the idmclient host.

Prerequisites

  • You are logged in as IdM administrator.
  • You have created a user account for idm_user in IdM and unlocked the account by creating a password for the user. For details on adding a new IdM user using the CLI, see Adding users using the command line.
  • No local idm_user account is present on the idmclient host. The idm_user user is not listed in the local /etc/passwd file.
  • You have a custom application named third-party-app installed on the idmclient host.
  • The report command for the third-party-app application is installed in the /opt/third-party-app/bin/report directory.
  • You have created a local service account named thirdpartyapp to execute commands for the third-party-app application.

Procedure

  1. Retrieve a Kerberos ticket as the IdM admin.

    [root@idmclient ~]# kinit admin
  2. Add the /opt/third-party-app/bin/report command to the IdM database of sudo commands:

    [root@idmclient ~]# ipa sudocmd-add /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
    ----------------------------------------------------
    Added Sudo Command "/opt/third-party-app/bin/report"
    ----------------------------------------------------
      Sudo Command: /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
  3. Create a sudo rule named run_third-party-app_report:

    [root@idmclient ~]# ipa sudorule-add run_third-party-app_report
    --------------------------------------------
    Added Sudo Rule "run_third-party-app_report"
    --------------------------------------------
      Rule name: run_third-party-app_report
      Enabled: TRUE
  4. Use the --users=<user> option to specify the RunAs user for the sudorule-add-runasuser command:

    [root@idmclient ~]# ipa sudorule-add-runasuser run_third-party-app_report --users=thirdpartyapp
      Rule name: run_third-party-app_report
      Enabled: TRUE
      RunAs External User: thirdpartyapp
    -------------------------
    Number of members added 1
    -------------------------

    The user (or group specified with the --groups=* option) can be external to IdM, such as a local service account or an Active Directory user. Do not add a % prefix for group names.

  5. Add the /opt/third-party-app/bin/report command to the run_third-party-app_report rule:

    [root@idmclient ~]# ipa sudorule-add-allow-command run_third-party-app_report --sudocmds '/opt/third-party-app/bin/report'
    Rule name: run_third-party-app_report
    Enabled: TRUE
    Sudo Allow Commands: /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
    RunAs External User: thirdpartyapp
    -------------------------
    Number of members added 1
    -------------------------
  6. Apply the run_third-party-app_report rule to the IdM idmclient host:

    [root@idmclient ~]# ipa sudorule-add-host run_third-party-app_report --hosts idmclient.idm.example.com
    Rule name: run_third-party-app_report
    Enabled: TRUE
    Hosts: idmclient.idm.example.com
    Sudo Allow Commands: /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
    RunAs External User: thirdpartyapp
    -------------------------
    Number of members added 1
    -------------------------
  7. Add the idm_user account to the run_third-party-app_report rule:

    [root@idmclient ~]# ipa sudorule-add-user run_third-party-app_report --users idm_user
    Rule name: run_third-party-app_report
    Enabled: TRUE
    Users: idm_user
    Hosts: idmclient.idm.example.com
    Sudo Allow Commands: /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
    RunAs External User: thirdpartyapp
    -------------------------
    Number of members added 1
    注記

    Propagating the changes from the server to the client can take a few minutes.

Verification

  1. Log in to the idmclient host as the idm_user account.
  2. Test the new sudo rule:

    1. Display which sudo rules the idm_user account is allowed to perform.

      [idm_user@idmclient ~]$ sudo -l
      Matching Defaults entries for idm_user@idm.example.com on idmclient:
          !visiblepw, always_set_home, match_group_by_gid, always_query_group_plugin,
          env_reset, env_keep="COLORS DISPLAY HOSTNAME HISTSIZE KDEDIR LS_COLORS",
          env_keep+="MAIL PS1 PS2 QTDIR USERNAME LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE",
          env_keep+="LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES",
          env_keep+="LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE",
          env_keep+="LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS _XKB_CHARSET XAUTHORITY KRB5CCNAME",
          secure_path=/sbin\:/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin
      
      User idm_user@idm.example.com may run the following commands on idmclient:
          (thirdpartyapp) /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
    2. Run the report command as the thirdpartyapp service account.

      [idm_user@idmclient ~]$ sudo -u thirdpartyapp /opt/third-party-app/bin/report
      [sudo] password for idm_user@idm.example.com:
      Executing report...
      Report successful.
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