Bugzilla – Bug 569
Support for host group plugin
Last modified: 2012-09-06 11:33:42 MDT
The sudoers plugin currently has support for a non-Unix user groups plugin but no way to support arbitrary external groups of hosts. A simple fix would be to replicate the non-Unix group API but for hosts, using some syntactic sugar (perhaps :hostname?). A potentially batter approach is to use a URI-based scheme that supports multiple plugins and that can handle groups of users and hosts. In this schenario, when the data plugin is initialized it would return a URI type (e.g. qas) which is used to identify groups that should be resolved using that plugin. For instance: qas://Administrators ALL = ALL would match any user in the AD Administrators group. Likewise, qas://Administrators qas://Servers = ALL is the same but for hosts in the AD Servers machine group. The In addition to a test for whether a user or host is in a group, the plugin may also support a function to enumerate all groups that a user or host belong to. This may dramatically reduce the number of queries required but not all plugins may be able to support this.