Let me start by apologizing here - I'm feeling a bit silly...
how about 'becomeroot' or 'iwannaplaygod' or 'rootme' or maybe even
'meroot' or 'beroot'
Yeah, sorry, but remember I did apologize first! ;-)
And, of course, DON'T POST what you made it!
On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 07:59, Michael via PLUG-discuss
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> I've figured out how I'm going to secure my system. I will link sudo
> to another command and then create an alias for sudo that will echo
> something like, 'Sudo has been disabled,' if I forget. Now I need
> suggestions on what to use. Chat gpt suggests supersudo but that's
> too long. What do you all think?
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 11:42 PM George Toft via PLUG-discuss
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> <mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>> Okay, I now come begging for more information on why RH thinks sudo
>> is
>> bad. But first a little background...
>>
>> Where I work, the first thing we do is remove sudo and replace it
>> with a
>> shell script that calls our centralized Privileged Access Management
>> (PAM) system (not naming vendor). The use of sudo requires and
>> exception
>> and review and is not permanent. So I'm very versed on the
>> principles
>> and implementation of PAM. Last year our Staff Architect asked me to
>> compare and contrast sudo against <unnamed product>. Side-by-side,
>> feature-by-feature, I did so, based on our POC's on Red Hat Identity
>> Manager (IdM), which uses sudo, and locally engineered solutions.
>>
>> I personally detest sudo because it's like chmod 777 * - makes
>> everything work so much better, and software vendors can just drop
>> in
>> their own sudo rules in /etc/sudoers.d/ and make magic happen
>> without
>> you ever knowing what happened. Several times we've had to convert
>> some
>> vendor's sudo rules to our own system's rules, and I ask the vendor
>> "Why
>> do you have this rule?" Their answer: "We don't know." OFFS :(
>>
>> As far as sudo goes, it is included in the Center for Internet
>> Security's (CIS) Benchmarks, which is the embodiment of the
>> information
>> security industry's best practices. I did some work for them for a
>> couple years, and every change (add/mod/delete) required consensus
>> approval from 80 organizations around the world, including thee
>> letter
>> agencies in the US and abroad. Many/most auditors expect financial
>> institutions to follow this guide, or explain convincingly why not.
>> So
>> every six months, we get to say: "We don't use sudo. Instead, we do
>> this." And then we get to do live demos of timed privileged access.
>> Haven't had a follow-on question in the last 8 years.
>>
>> (OT: I cringe at referring to CIS because of their collusion with
>> the
>> Arizona Secretary of State and the Department of Homeland Security
>> to
>> suppress people's First Amendment Right to Free Speech. Proof is in
>> the
>> Elon Musk Twitter Dump. I do not have a copy of the email on my
>> computer. I generally don't tell people I did work for them - it's
>> so
>> embarrassing. Effing Ratbastards.)
>>
>> So... back to the original question, as I was not able to find
>> anything
>> saying Red Hat discourages sudo, nor was my favorite AI. Please
>> toss me
>> a cookie...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> George Toft
>>
>> On 6/26/2024 12:23 PM, Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> > Actually, I'd like to start a bit of a discussion on this.
>> >
>> >
>> > First, I know that for some reason RedHat seems to think that
>> sudo is
>> > bad/insecure.
>> >
>> > I'd like to know the logic there, as I think the argument FOR
>> using
>> > sudo is MUCH stronger than any argument I've heard (which,
>> admittedly,
>> > is pretty close to zero) AGAINST it. Here's my thinking:
>> >
>> > Allowing users to become root via sudo gives you:
>> >
>> > - VERY fine control over what programs a user can use as root
>> >
>> > - The ability to remove admin privs (ability to run as root)
>> from an
>> > individual WITHOUT having to change root password everywhere.
>> >
>> > Now, remember, RH is supposedly 'corporate friendly'. As a
>> > corporation, that 2nd feature is well worth the price of
>> admission,
>> > PLUS I can only allow certain admins to run certain programs?
>> Very nice.
>> >
>> > So, for example, at my last place I allowed the 'tester' user to
>> run
>> > fdisk as root, because they needed to partition the disk under
>> test.
>> > In my case, and since the network that we ran on was totally
>> isolated
>> > from the corporate network, I let fdisk be run without needing a
>> > password. Oh, and if they messed up and fdisk'ed the boot
>> partition,
>> > it was no big deal - I could recreate the machine from scratch
>> (minus
>> > whatever data hadn't been copied off yet - which would only be
>> their
>> > most recent run), in 10 minutes (which was about 2 minutes of my
>> time,
>> > and 8 minutes of scripted 'dd' ;-) However, if the test user
>> wanted
>> > to become root using su, they had to enter the test user password.
>> >
>> > So, back to the original question - setting sudo to not require a
>> > password. We should have asked, what program do you want to run
>> as
>> > root without requiring a password? How secure is your system?
>> What
>> > else do you use it for? Who has access? etc, etc, etc.
>> >
>> > There's one other minor objection I have to the 'zero defense'
>> > statement below - the malicious thing you downloaded (and, I
>> assume
>> > ran) has to be written to USE sudo in its attempt to break in, I
>> > believe, or it wouldn't matter HOW open your sudo was. (simply
>> saying
>> > 'su - myscript' won't do it).
>> >
>> > And, if you're truly paranoid about stuff you download, you
>> should:
>> >
>> > 1 - NEVER download something you don't have an excellent reason to
>> > believe is 'safe', and ALWAYS make sure you actually downloaded it
>> > from where you thought you did.
>> >
>> > 2 - For the TRULY paranoid, have a machine you use to download and
>> > test software on, which you can totally disconnect from your
>> network
>> > (not JUST the internet), and which has NO confidential info, and
>> which
>> > you can erase and rebuild without caring. Run the downloaded
>> stuff
>> > there, for a long time, until you're pretty sure it won't bite
>> you.
>> >
>> > 3 - For the REALLY REALLY paranoid, don't download anything from
>> > anywhere, disconnect from the internet permanently, get high-tech
>> > locks for your doors, and wrap your house in a faraday cage!
>> >
>> > And probably don't leave the house....
>> >
>> > The point of number 3 is that there is always a risk, even with
>> > 'well-known' software, and as someone else said - they're
>> watching you
>> > anyway. The question is how 'safe' do you want to be? And how
>> > paranoid are you, really?
>> >
>> > Wow, talk about rabbit hole! ;-)
>> >
>> > 'Let the flames begin!' :-)
>> >
>> >
>> > On 6/25/24 18:50, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> >>> wanted sudo not to require a password.
>> >> Please reconsider this... This is VERY BAD security practice.
>> There's
>> >> basically zero defense if you happen to download/run something
>> >> malicious.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, at 6:01 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> >>> then I remember that a PLUG member mentioned ChatGPT being
>> good at
>> >>> troubleshooting so I figured I'd give it a go. I sprint about
>> half
>> >>> an hour asking it the wrong question but after that it took 2
>> >>> minutes. I wanted sudo not to require a password. it is
>> wonderful!
>> >>> now I don't have to bug you guys. so it looks like this is the
>> end
>> >>> of the user group unless you want to talk about OT stuff.
>> >>>
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