trifectatechfoundation / trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs
Authentication failure on Arch Linux with base sudo removed
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Description
Describe the bug
Whenever a user tries to use sudo-rs on a Arch Linux machine with sudo removed, /etc/pam.d/sudo and /etc/sudoers are moved to their .pacsave counterparts but (due to the pacman package manager) but not copied rendering sudo-rs unusable at first.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Install sudo-rs
# pacman -S sudo-rs
- Remove sudo without removing dependent packages
# pacman -Rdd sudo # Removes sudo
- Test sudo-rs
$ sudo-rs -ll
sudo-rs: invalid configuration: No such file or directory (os error 2)
- Correctly copy the .pacsave files from uninstalling sudo
# cp /etc/sudoers.pacsave /etc/sudoers
# cp /etc/pam.d/sudo.pacsave /etc/pam.d/sudo
- Test sudo-rs
$ sudo-rs -ll
sudo: Authentication failed, try again.
sudo: Authentication failed, try again.
sudo-rs: Maximum 3 incorrect authentication attempts
Expected behavior
sudo-rs should ship with the necessary files to be a proper "drop-in" replacement of sudo.
Environment (please complete the following information):
- Linux distribution: Arch Linux
sudo-rscommit hash:b57be94(Version 0.2.7)
Additional context
While removing sudo after installing sudo-rs which depends on some of sudo's files, sudo-rs does not ship with the required files for it to work out-of-the-box.
The github README does state how to remediate the issues here: https://github.com/trifectatechfoundation/sudo-rs/#installing-our-pre-compiled-x86-64-binaries
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Arch Linux reproduction steps and the README's pre-compiled binary installation guidance, then inspect how /etc/sudoers and /etc/pam.d/sudo are provided when sudo is removed. Reproduce the pacman commands and verify that sudo-rs works without manually copying the .pacsave files.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- arch-linux, rust
- Domain
- authentication, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100