[Openstack] extending rootwrap securely

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu May 3 11:45:20 UTC 2012


Yuriy Taraday wrote:
> We can do "#includedir /etc/nova/sudoers.d" from sudoers as well.
> I think, a solution with a separate conf/dir for rootwrap is a step
> back to sudo.

Except that sudo/sudoers does not allow argument filtering or more
complex filters, which is the main reason nova-rootwrap was proposed as
an alternate root escalation filtering mechanism.

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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack




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