Kieran et al:

Set up /etc/sudoers with escalation for particular scripts.

1. Make a script on your deployment server, maybe "deploywoa.py"
2. Add a command alias to your /etc/sudoers file like:

Cmnd_Alias     DEPLOYWOA = /usr/local/sbin/deploywoa.py

3. make your user on remote server part of a group sth like "woadeploygrp" then 
give that group sudo escalation privs

% woadeploygrp    ALL=(ALL) ALL

4. Then, later in /etc/sudoers

% woadeploygrp    ALL=NOPASSWD: DEPLOYWOA


I've also wondered if launchd watch folders would be useful to trigger 
deployment of uploaded woa.


Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS

On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:

> 
> On Nov 17, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Like many of you, I have custom scripts that use ssh to deploy woa apps. 
>> Scripts issue remote commands via ssh and script exec user's id_dsa has 
>> corresponding id_dsa.pub in the remote server's auth keys for admin and 
>> root. The problem is that root (apparently) is needed to set the chown on 
>> the woa bundles to appserver:appserveradm, however I would like to get away 
>> from needing root user remote ssh commands for security reasons.
>> 
>> Assuming you all use chown of appserver:appserveradm and chmod of 550 on 
>> your deployed woa bundles (are you?), then the question is with respect to 
>> non-interactive, passwordless, secure remote deployment (copy, untar, chown, 
>> chmod) of WOAs, what user/ssh setup are you all using besides r...@remote, 
>> or is r...@remote the only way?
>> 
>> Regards, Kieran
> 
> You can also create copies of the chown and chmod with the SUID bit set: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid.  So instead of your script doing a 
> chmod, you would call (making up a name) chmodappserver.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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