How to control access with sudo and FreeIPA

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Hello all!

I’m trying to establish some access control when non-administrative user were running playbooks with Ansible.

All the sudo rules are inherited from FreeIPA and now my only option is to create a sudo rule that enables ALL commands to an specific user to run some playbook on some host. This is, definitely, not the best practice, as with the same user could login into the host and execute any other command, and not ONLY those on my playbook on the master branch of my Git server.

I’m sure that there is some another more elegant and secure way to grant some temporary administrative privileges on hosts to some user. Maybe working with the new ipa_sudorule or something?

Do you guys have some example to introduce me?

s,

Rodrigo B Brasil

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This is one of the things that the Ansible Tower server provides, full
RBAC while using a shared user.

Ansible itself does not have this built in, though there are many ways
to enforce this using other tools to execute it.

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Out of interest, which are those?

Johannes

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My favorites are cron, at and incron combined with unix ACLs and
groups to restrict the different keys to each environment.

But any job scheduler should work, you just need to make sure it meets
your requirements, Tower just happens to pay my salary.