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Gumper

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From: U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-10-26

Posts: 132

Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

I have an entry in a file called losetup that is located in /etc/sudoers.d. Until recently when I would run "sudo losetup", sudo would use the permissions configured in the /etc/sudoer.d/losetup file.

Now it is not working anymore. It appears that sudo is not reading the contents of the /etc/sudoer.d/losetup file. If I comment out this file and add it's contents to the standard sudo file using visudo, then everything works ok.

Any ideas why sudo is not accessing sudoers.d?

The code that I'm using in the losetup file is as follows:

gumper ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/losetup

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DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Maybe the syntax is wrong.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Using_visudo

^ I wonder if you can change this alias to edit (with a sanity check) the /etc/sudoer.d/losetup instead of /etc/sudoers. Hmmm... But why do you need a separate file for anyway? I thought the whole point of the rc.conf file (which is specific to Arch and to *BSD) was to bring several settings in one place, instead of scattered across the system.

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Gumper

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From: U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-10-26

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Maybe the syntax is wrong.

I don't think that is the issue as it worked correctly before. Plus when I add the exact same lines to the /etc/sudoers file, it works ok.

But why do you need a separate file for anyway? I thought the whole point of the rc.conf file (which is specific to Arch and to *BSD) was to bring several settings in one place, instead of scattered across the system.

From what I've read my understanding is that it's better to use sudoer.d and keep the /etc/sudoers file unchanged. The files in /etc/sudoers.d are not changed when upgrades or changes to sudo are made. Whereas /etc/sudoers could be changed.

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DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Nah. I'm still using the exact same /etc/sudoers file (permissions and all) from the install I did 3 years ago on a different computer. The sudo package has been updated several times since then. No issues whatsoever.

Have you tried rebooting?

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Gumper

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From: U.S.A.

Registered: 2009-10-26

Posts: 132

Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Yes, I tried rebooting. Same results.

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fwolf

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Registered: 2012-11-18

Posts: 3

Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Just a note:
sudo will read each file in /etc/sudoers.d, skipping file names that
end in ~ or contain a . character ...

This solve my sudoers.d/ file not working problem, found here:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5017

Hope this helpful.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

@fwolf, that is good information in general, but if you read the thread, you would have seen that the file in question is /etc/sudoers.d/losetup (I see no ~ or . there).

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Also, since he's new here he might want to read the forum rules as this is a bit of a necrobump. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

A...as this is a bit of a necrobump. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette

A  bit old. but relevant.   Leaving open...

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gezerati

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Registered: 2015-06-04

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

I had the same problem. Turned out there was a group setting in the sudoers file, after the include statement, that is overwriting the permissions set in the file included from /etc/sudoers.d

eg

#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
%group     ALL=(ALL) ALL

if the user, is part of the group, then the specific user permissions set in the included file will be trashed by the group statement in sudoers

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Sudo not reading from sudoers.d

Please don't necrobump: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing

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