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0 pointsilyt3y ago0 comments

Depends on what you do. If you have app server and use it to give access for developers to restart their apps, them getting root on the server is entirely irrelevant.

It's more so the curious dev don't just go sudo bash and changes stuff willy nilly then forgets what they changed.

We do avoid wildcards like plague but honestly regexp support would be more useful, then our devs could just have say

    ^/bin/systemctl (start|stop|restart|status) app-([a-z0-9\.\-]+)$

and be pretty safe.

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josteink3y ago

Sure. But the simplicity of adding a wildcard makes it very easy for sysadmins to make a too simplistic configuration, which in turn ends up being a security vulnerability, maybe even if the code in sudo itself contains no faults.

To me this sounds like a feature for a non-default "root-manager", while the default should be kept simpler to avoid people falling into such traps.

heleninboodler3y ago

You lost me somewhere between "regexp" and "pretty safe."

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