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NAME

6       sssd-sudo - Configuring sudo with the SSSD back end
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DESCRIPTION

9       This manual page describes how to configure sudo(8) to work with
10       sssd(8) and how SSSD caches sudo rules.
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CONFIGURING SUDO TO COOPERATE WITH SSSD

13       To enable SSSD as a source for sudo rules, add sss to the sudoers entry
14       in nsswitch.conf(5).
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16       For example, to configure sudo to first lookup rules in the standard
17       sudoers(5) file (which should contain rules that apply to local users)
18       and then in SSSD, the nsswitch.conf file should contain the following
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21           sudoers: files sss
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23       More information about configuring the sudoers search order from the
24       nsswitch.conf file as well as information about the LDAP schema that is
25       used to store sudo rules in the directory can be found in
26       sudoers.ldap(5).
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28       Note: in order to use netgroups or IPA hostgroups in sudo rules, you
29       also need to correctly set nisdomainname(1) to your NIS domain name
30       (which equals to IPA domain name when using hostgroups).
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CONFIGURING SSSD TO FETCH SUDO RULES

33       All configuration that is needed on SSSD side is to extend the list of
34       services with "sudo" in [sssd] section of sssd.conf(5). To speed up the
35       LDAP lookups, you can also set search base for sudo rules using
36       ldap_sudo_search_base option.
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38       The following example shows how to configure SSSD to download sudo
39       rules from an LDAP server.
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41           [sssd]
42           config_file_version = 2
43           services = nss, pam, sudo
44           domains = EXAMPLE
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46           [domain/EXAMPLE]
47           id_provider = ldap
48           sudo_provider = ldap
49           ldap_uri = ldap://example.com
50           ldap_sudo_search_base = ou=sudoers,dc=example,dc=com
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53       It's important to note that on platforms where systemd is supported
54       there's no need to add the "sudo" provider to the list of services, as
55       it became optional. However, sssd-sudo.socket must be enabled instead.
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57       When SSSD is configured to use IPA as the ID provider, the sudo
58       provider is automatically enabled. The sudo search base is configured
59       to use the IPA native LDAP tree (cn=sudo,$SUFFIX). If any other search
60       base is defined in sssd.conf, this value will be used instead. The
61       compat tree (ou=sudoers,$SUFFIX) is no longer required for IPA sudo
62       functionality.
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THE SUDO RULE CACHING MECHANISM

65       The biggest challenge, when developing sudo support in SSSD, was to
66       ensure that running sudo with SSSD as the data source provides the same
67       user experience and is as fast as sudo but keeps providing the most
68       current set of rules as possible. To satisfy these requirements, SSSD
69       uses three kinds of updates. They are referred to as full refresh,
70       smart refresh and rules refresh.
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72       The smart refresh periodically downloads rules that are new or were
73       modified after the last update. Its primary goal is to keep the
74       database growing by fetching only small increments that do not generate
75       large amounts of network traffic.
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77       The full refresh simply deletes all sudo rules stored in the cache and
78       replaces them with all rules that are stored on the server. This is
79       used to keep the cache consistent by removing every rule which was
80       deleted from the server. However, full refresh may produce a lot of
81       traffic and thus it should be run only occasionally depending on the
82       size and stability of the sudo rules.
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84       The rules refresh ensures that we do not grant the user more permission
85       than defined. It is triggered each time the user runs sudo. Rules
86       refresh will find all rules that apply to this user, check their
87       expiration time and redownload them if expired. In the case that any of
88       these rules are missing on the server, the SSSD will do an out of band
89       full refresh because more rules (that apply to other users) may have
90       been deleted.
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92       If enabled, SSSD will store only rules that can be applied to this
93       machine. This means rules that contain one of the following values in
94       sudoHost attribute:
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96       ·   keyword ALL
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98       ·   wildcard
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100       ·   netgroup (in the form "+netgroup")
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102       ·   hostname or fully qualified domain name of this machine
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104       ·   one of the IP addresses of this machine
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106       ·   one of the IP addresses of the network (in the form "address/mask")
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108       There are many configuration options that can be used to adjust the
109       behavior. Please refer to "ldap_sudo_*" in sssd-ldap(5) and "sudo_*" in
110       sssd.conf(5).
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SEE ALSO

113       sssd(8), sssd.conf(5), sssd-ldap(5), sssd-krb5(5), sssd-simple(5),
114       sssd-ipa(5), sssd-ad(5), sssd-files(5), sssd-sudo(5), sssd-session-
115       recording(5), sss_cache(8), sss_debuglevel(8), sss_obfuscate(8),
116       sss_seed(8), sssd_krb5_locator_plugin(8), sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(8),
117       sss_ssh_knownhostsproxy(8), sssd-ifp(5), pam_sss(8).  sss_rpcidmapd(5)
118       sssd-systemtap(5)
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AUTHORS

121       The SSSD upstream - https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/
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