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Re: [Bacula-users] Special Permissions to Stop and Start Services during backup

2017-04-28 12:09:25
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Special Permissions to Stop and Start Services during backup
From: "Roberts, Ben" <ben.roberts AT gsacapital DOT com>
To: Jim Richardson <jim AT securit360 DOT com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:52:11 +0000

Hi Jim,

 

Note that sudo requires the command be executed from a TTY by default for security, which isn’t compatible with how system services run. Do you have a defaults entry for bacula that disables the “requiretty” option? Not having this would manifest as a permission denied as if the sudo rule hadn’t taken effect.

 

> Defaults:bacula !requiretty

 

Giving bacula full access to systemctl is also not consistent with the principles of least privilege, and potentially dangerous. You would be safer providing multiple sudo rules to start and stop just the services you need bacula to have control over.

 

Regards,

Ben Roberts


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