Bug 713 – Sudo fails to run command as any user but root.

Bug 713 - Sudo fails to run command as any user but root.


Summary:	Sudo fails to run command as any user but root.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.8.14
Hardware:	Macintosh MacOS X

Importance:	low normal
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

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Reported:	2015-08-21 10:48 MDT by Mike Beasley
Modified:	2015-09-09 12:26 MDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Mike Beasley 2015-08-21 10:48:33 MDT

Mac OS X version 10.10.5
Sudo compiled from source.

mike@snafu-mac:~/ > sudo -V
Sudo version 1.8.14p3
Sudoers policy plugin version 1.8.14p3
Sudoers file grammar version 44
Sudoers I/O plugin version 1.8.14p3
mike@snafu-mac:~/ > 

When trying to run a command as any other user than root it fails with the following error:

mike@snafu-mac:~/ > sudo -u mike echo sudo
sudo: unable to change to runas uid (501, 501): Operation not permitted
mike@snafu-mac:~/ >

Works fine if target user is root:

mike@snafu-mac:~/ > sudo -u root echo sudo
sudo
mike@snafu-mac:~/ >

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2015-08-21 10:58:34 MDT

I'm not seeing that on my 10.10.5 machine.

$ sudo -V
Sudo version 1.8.14p3
Sudoers policy plugin version 1.8.14p3
Sudoers file grammar version 44
Sudoers I/O plugin version 1.8.14p3

$ sudo -u millert id
uid=501(millert) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),79(_appserverusr),80(admin),81(_appserveradm),98(_lpadmin),33(_appstore),100(_lpoperator),204(_developer),395(com.apple.access_ftp),398(com.apple.access_screensharing),399(com.apple.access_ssh)

$ sudo -u daemon id
uid=1(daemon) gid=1(daemon) groups=1(daemon),12(everyone),61(localaccounts),100(_lpoperator)

Can you try the Mac OS X 10.10 sudo package?http://www.sudo.ws/dist/packages/MacOSX/10.10/sudo-1.8.14p3.pkg

Comment 2 Mike Beasley 2015-08-21 15:21:03 MDT

Sorry for the delayed response.

The .pkg version works as designed, any hints on where I should look to further debug this issue?

Thanks,
Mike

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2015-09-09 10:18:57 MDT

I was able to reproduce this using the --disable-setreuid configure option.

Comment 4 Todd C. Miller 2015-09-09 10:54:01 MDT

I've fixed the problem you saw when neither setreuid() nor setresuid() are available.  See:

http://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/34754ad586c7

Comment 5 Mike Beasley 2015-09-09 12:26:24 MDT

Fantastic, thank you.