Well, you can use simplified regex.  [A-z0-9]*  and so on? (at least it
works for me)

But if you need that much fine grained control over such a large
group...maybe time for ldap?

Phil W

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Snyder, Alexander <alex@misteralexander.com
> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I learned today, as I am crafting a request to the Unix Security
> Operations team, that you can't use REGEX in a Sudoers file.
>
> Does anyone know why not?
>
> I'm not talking why not as in a policy question (
> http://www.sudo.ws/man/1.8.15/sudoers.man.html)
>
> I'm talking why not as in a technical capabilities thing .... wouldn't be
> using REGEX in a Sudoers file be great?  Is there any practical reason that
> anyone can think of as to why this hasn't been innovated yet?
>
> If no ... anyone want to get on that bandwagon with me and make (specify?)
> "Sudoers 2.0!" ... where in we allow the use of REGEX.
>
> Since I can't use REGEX, I am relegated to specifying hundreds of lines of
> possible use-case scenarios for commands+paths, for use in a 5 environment
> (+production) system.  I briefly flirted with writing a script+for-loop to
> do this work for me, but that would result in a sudoers file request
> thousands of lines long .... my manager would shit himself ... and then be
> upset that I even submitted a request like that.
>
> Outside of us forking sudo ... anyone have any comments?
>
> I know its Friday (fav and forget) ... but if anyone has any suggestions
> on a middle ground between REGEX Sudo and a 3,000 line sudoers file ... I'm
> all ears!
>
> --
> Thanks,
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