Noa Resare created CLOUDSTACK-967:
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             Summary: security hazard: passwordless root sudo for cloud user
                 Key: CLOUDSTACK-967
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-967
             Project: CloudStack
          Issue Type: Improvement
      Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
            Reporter: Noa Resare


When running the setup-cloud-management program, it installs a terrible entry 
in the file /etc/sudoers:

cloud ALL =NOPASSWD : ALL

To the uninitiated: this means that the user 'cloud' can become root without 
supplying a password via the sudo facility.

This is obviously very, very bad from a security perspective. Any security 
vulnerability where an attacker (remote or local) can trick the cloudstack 
server component to execute arbitrary tasks immediately escalates into root 
access.

Let's figure out what permissions cloudstack actually needs and fix this.

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