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SUDO.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual SUDO.CONF(5)
sudo.conf — configuration for sudo front end
The sudo.conf file is used to configure the sudo front end. It
specifies the security policy and I/O logging plugins, debug flags
as well as plugin-agnostic path names and settings.
The sudo.conf file supports the following directives, described in
detail below.
Plugin a security policy or I/O logging plugin
Path a plugin-agnostic path
Set a front end setting, such as disable_coredump or
group_source
Debug debug flags to aid in debugging sudo, sudoreplay, visudo,
and the sudoers plugin.
The pound sign (‘#’) is used to indicate a comment. Both the
comment character and any text after it, up to the end of the line,
are ignored.
Long lines can be continued with a backslash (‘\’) as the last
character on the line. Note that leading white space is removed
from the beginning of lines even when the continuation character is
used.
Non-comment lines that don't begin with Plugin, Path, Debug, or Set
are silently ignored.
The sudo.conf file is always parsed in the “C” locale.
Plugin configuration
sudo supports a plugin architecture for security policies and
input/output logging. Third parties can develop and distribute
their own policy and I/O logging plugins to work seamlessly with
the sudo front end. Plugins are dynamically loaded based on the
contents of sudo.conf.
A Plugin line consists of the Plugin keyword, followed by the
symbol_name and the path to the dynamic shared object that contains
the plugin. The symbol_name is the name of the approval_plugin,
audit_plugin, io_plugin, or policy_plugin struct contained in the
plugin. If a plugin implements multiple plugin types, there must
be a Plugin line for each unique symbol name. The path may be
fully qualified or relative. If not fully qualified, it is
relative to the directory specified by the plugin_dir Path setting,
which defaults to /usr/local/libexec/sudo. In other words:
Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so
is equivalent to:
Plugin sudoers_policy /usr/local/libexec/sudo/sudoers.so
If the plugin was compiled statically into the sudo binary instead
of being installed as a dynamic shared object, the path should be
specified without a leading directory, as it does not actually
exist in the file system. For example:
Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so
Starting with sudo 1.8.5, any additional parameters after the path
are passed as arguments to the plugin's open function. For
example, to override the compile-time default sudoers file mode:
Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so sudoers_mode=0440
See the sudoers(5) manual for a list of supported arguments.
The same dynamic shared object may contain multiple plugins, each
with a different symbol name. The file must be owned by uid 0 and
only writable by its owner. Because of ambiguities that arise from
composite policies, only a single policy plugin may be specified.
This limitation does not apply to I/O plugins.
If no sudo.conf file is present, or if it contains no Plugin lines,
the sudoers plugin will be used as the default security policy, for
I/O logging (if enabled by the policy) and for auditing. This is
equivalent to the following:
Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so
Plugin sudoers_io sudoers.so
Plugin sudoers_audit sudoers.so
Starting with sudo version 1.9.1, some of the logging functionality
of the sudoers plugin has been moved from the policy plugin to an
audit plugin. To maintain compatibility with sudo.conf files from
older sudo versions, if sudoers is configured as the security
policy, it will be used as an audit plugin as well. This
guarantees that the logging behavior will be consistnet with that
of sudo versions 1.9.0 and below.
For more information on the sudo plugin architecture, see the
sudo_plugin(5) manual.
Path settings
A Path line consists of the Path keyword, followed by the name of
the path to set and its value. For example:
Path noexec /usr/local/libexec/sudo/sudo_noexec.so
Path askpass /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass
If no path name is specified, features relying on the specified
setting will be disabled. Disabling Path settings is only
supported in sudo version 1.8.16 and higher.
The following plugin-agnostic paths may be set in the
/etc/sudo.conf file:
askpass The fully qualified path to a helper program used to read
the user's password when no terminal is available. This
may be the case when sudo is executed from a graphical
(as opposed to text-based) application. The program
specified by askpass should display the argument passed
to it as the prompt and write the user's password to the
standard output. The value of askpass may be overridden
by the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable.
devsearch
An ordered, colon-separated search path of directories to
look in for device nodes. This is used when mapping the
process's tty device number to a device name on systems
that do not provide such a mechanism. Sudo will not
recurse into sub-directories. If terminal devices may be
located in a sub-directory of /dev, that path must be
explicitly listed in devsearch. The default value is
/dev/pts:/dev/vt:/dev/term:/dev/zcons:/dev/pty:/dev
This option is ignored on systems that support either the
devname() or _ttyname_dev() functions, for example BSD,
macOS and Solaris.
noexec The fully-qualified path to a shared library containing
wrappers for the execl(), execle(), execlp(), exect(),
execv(), execve(), execvP(), execvp(), execvpe(),
fexecve(), popen(), posix_spawn(), posix_spawnp(),
system(), and wordexp() library functions that prevent
the execution of further commands. This is used to
implement the noexec functionality on systems that
support LD_PRELOAD or its equivalent. The default value
is /usr/local/libexec/sudo/sudo_noexec.so.
plugin_dir
The default directory to use when searching for plugins
that are specified without a fully qualified path name.
The default value is /usr/local/libexec/sudo.
Other settings
The sudo.conf file also supports the following front end settings:
disable_coredump
Core dumps of sudo itself are disabled by default to
prevent the disclosure of potentially sensitive
information. To aid in debugging sudo crashes, you may
wish to re-enable core dumps by setting
“disable_coredump” to false in sudo.conf as follows:
Set disable_coredump false
All modern operating systems place restrictions on core
dumps from set-user-ID processes like sudo so this option
can be enabled without compromising security. To
actually get a sudo core file you will likely need to
enable core dumps for set-user-ID processes. On BSD and
Linux systems this is accomplished in the sysctl(8)
command. On Solaris, the coreadm(1m) command is used to
configure core dump behavior.
This setting is only available in sudo version 1.8.4 and
higher.
developer_mode
By default sudo refuses to load plugins which can be
modified by other than the root user. The plugin should
be owned by root and write access permissions should be
disabled for “group” and “other”. To make development of
a plugin easier, you can disable that by setting
“developer_mode” option to true in sudo.conf as follows:
Set developer_mode true
Please note that this creates a security risk, so it is
not recommended on critical systems such as a desktop
machine for daily use, but is intended to be used in
development environments (VM, container, etc). Before
enabling developer mode, ensure you understand the
implications.
This setting is only available in sudo version 1.9.0 and
higher.
group_source
sudo passes the invoking user's group list to the policy
and I/O plugins. On most systems, there is an upper
limit to the number of groups that a user may belong to
simultaneously (typically 16 for compatibility with NFS).
On systems with the getconf(1) utility, running:
getconf NGROUPS_MAX
will return the maximum number of groups.
However, it is still possible to be a member of a larger
number of groups--they simply won't be included in the
group list returned by the kernel for the user. Starting
with sudo version 1.8.7, if the user's kernel group list
has the maximum number of entries, sudo will consult the
group database directly to determine the group list.
This makes it possible for the security policy to perform
matching by group name even when the user is a member of
more than the maximum number of groups.
The group_source setting allows the administrator to
change this default behavior. Supported values for
group_source are:
static Use the static group list that the kernel
returns. Retrieving the group list this way is
very fast but it is subject to an upper limit
as described above. It is “static” in that it
does not reflect changes to the group database
made after the user logs in. This was the
default behavior prior to sudo 1.8.7.
dynamic Always query the group database directly. It
is “dynamic” in that changes made to the group
database after the user logs in will be
reflected in the group list. On some systems,
querying the group database for all of a user's
groups can be time consuming when querying a
network-based group database. Most operating
systems provide an efficient method of
performing such queries. Currently, sudo
supports efficient group queries on AIX, BSD,
HP-UX, Linux and Solaris.
adaptive Only query the group database if the static
group list returned by the kernel has the
maximum number of entries. This is the default
behavior in sudo 1.8.7 and higher.
For example, to cause sudo to only use the kernel's
static list of groups for the user:
Set group_source static
This setting is only available in sudo version 1.8.7 and
higher.
max_groups
The maximum number of user groups to retrieve from the
group database. Values less than one will be ignored.
This setting is only used when querying the group
database directly. It is intended to be used on systems
where it is not possible to detect when the array to be
populated with group entries is not sufficiently large.
By default, sudo will allocate four times the system's
maximum number of groups (see above) and retry with
double that number if the group database query fails.
This setting is only available in sudo version 1.8.7 and
higher. It should not be required in sudo versions
1.8.24 and higher and may be removed in a later release.
probe_interfaces
By default, sudo will probe the system's network
interfaces and pass the IP address of each enabled
interface to the policy plugin. This makes it possible
for the plugin to match rules based on the IP address
without having to query DNS. On Linux systems with a
large number of virtual interfaces, this may take a non-
negligible amount of time. If IP-based matching is not
required, network interface probing can be disabled as
follows:
Set probe_interfaces false
This setting is only available in sudo version 1.8.10 and
higher.
Debug flags
sudo versions 1.8.4 and higher support a flexible debugging
framework that can help track down what sudo is doing internally if
there is a problem.
A Debug line consists of the Debug keyword, followed by the name of
the program (or plugin) to debug (sudo, visudo, sudoreplay,
sudoers), the debug file name and a comma-separated list of debug
flags. The debug flag syntax used by sudo and the sudoers plugin
is subsystem@priority but a plugin is free to use a different
format so long as it does not include a comma (‘,’).
For example:
Debug sudo /var/log/sudo_debug all@warn,plugin@info
would log all debugging statements at the warn level and higher in
addition to those at the info level for the plugin subsystem.
As of sudo 1.8.12, multiple Debug entries may be specified per
program. Older versions of sudo only support a single Debug entry
per program. Plugin-specific Debug entries are also supported
starting with sudo 1.8.12 and are matched by either the base name
of the plugin that was loaded (for example sudoers.so) or by the
plugin's fully-qualified path name. Previously, the sudoers plugin
shared the same Debug entry as the sudo front end and could not be
configured separately.
The following priorities are supported, in order of decreasing
severity: crit, err, warn, notice, diag, info, trace and debug.
Each priority, when specified, also includes all priorities higher
than it. For example, a priority of notice would include debug
messages logged at notice and higher.
The priorities trace and debug also include function call tracing
which logs when a function is entered and when it returns. For
example, the following trace is for the get_user_groups() function
located in src/sudo.c:
sudo[123] -> get_user_groups @ src/sudo.c:385
sudo[123] <- get_user_groups @ src/sudo.c:429 := groups=10,0,5
When the function is entered, indicated by a right arrow ‘->’, the
program, process ID, function, source file and line number are
logged. When the function returns, indicated by a left arrow ‘<-’,
the same information is logged along with the return value. In
this case, the return value is a string.
The following subsystems are used by the sudo front-end:
all matches every subsystem
args command line argument processing
conv user conversation
edit sudoedit
event event subsystem
exec command execution
main sudo main function
netif network interface handling
pcomm communication with the plugin
plugin plugin configuration
pty pseudo-terminal related code
selinux SELinux-specific handling
util utility functions
utmp utmp handling
The sudoers(5) plugin includes support for additional subsystems.
/etc/sudo.conf sudo front end configuration
#
# Default /etc/sudo.conf file
#
# Sudo plugins:
# Plugin plugin_name plugin_path plugin_options ...
#
# The plugin_path is relative to /usr/local/libexec/sudo unless
# fully qualified.
# The plugin_name corresponds to a global symbol in the plugin
# that contains the plugin interface structure.
# The plugin_options are optional.
#
# The sudoers plugin is used by default if no Plugin lines are present.
#Plugin sudoers_policy sudoers.so
#Plugin sudoers_io sudoers.so
#Plugin sudoers_audit sudoers.so
#
# Sudo askpass:
# Path askpass /path/to/askpass
#
# An askpass helper program may be specified to provide a graphical
# password prompt for "sudo -A" support. Sudo does not ship with its
# own askpass program but can use the OpenSSH askpass.
#
# Use the OpenSSH askpass
#Path askpass /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass
#
# Use the Gnome OpenSSH askpass
#Path askpass /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass
#
# Sudo device search path:
# Path devsearch /dev/path1:/dev/path2:/dev
#
# A colon-separated list of paths to check when searching for a user's
# terminal device.
#
#Path devsearch /dev/pts:/dev/vt:/dev/term:/dev/zcons:/dev/pty:/dev
#
# Sudo noexec:
# Path noexec /path/to/sudo_noexec.so
#
# Path to a shared library containing replacements for the execv(),
# execve() and fexecve() library functions that just return an error.
# This is used to implement the "noexec" functionality on systems that
# support LD_PRELOAD or its equivalent.
#
# The compiled-in value is usually sufficient and should only be changed
# if you rename or move the sudo_noexec.so file.
#
#Path noexec /usr/local/libexec/sudo/sudo_noexec.so
#
# Sudo plugin directory:
# Path plugin_dir /path/to/plugins
#
# The default directory to use when searching for plugins that are
# specified without a fully qualified path name.
#
#Path plugin_dir /usr/local/libexec/sudo
#
# Sudo developer mode:
# Set developer_mode true|false
#
# Allow loading of plugins that are owned by non-root or are writable
# by "group" or "other". Should only be used during plugin development.
#Set developer_mode true
#
# Core dumps:
# Set disable_coredump true|false
#
# By default, sudo disables core dumps while it is executing (they
# are re-enabled for the command that is run).
# To aid in debugging sudo problems, you may wish to enable core
# dumps by setting "disable_coredump" to false.
#
#Set disable_coredump false
#
# User groups:
# Set group_source static|dynamic|adaptive
#
# Sudo passes the user's group list to the policy plugin.
# If the user is a member of the maximum number of groups (usually 16),
# sudo will query the group database directly to be sure to include
# the full list of groups.
#
# On some systems, this can be expensive so the behavior is configurable.
# The "group_source" setting has three possible values:
# static - use the user's list of groups returned by the kernel.
# dynamic - query the group database to find the list of groups.
# adaptive - if user is in less than the maximum number of groups.
# use the kernel list, else query the group database.
#
#Set group_source static
#
# Sudo interface probing:
# Set probe_interfaces true|false
#
# By default, sudo will probe the system's network interfaces and
# pass the IP address of each enabled interface to the policy plugin.
# On systems with a large number of virtual interfaces this may take
# a noticeable amount of time.
#
#Set probe_interfaces false
#
# Sudo debug files:
# Debug program /path/to/debug_log subsystem@priority[,subsyste@priority]
#
# Sudo and related programs support logging debug information to a file.
# The program is typically sudo, sudoers.so, sudoreplay or visudo.
#
# Subsystems vary based on the program; "all" matches all subsystems.
# Priority may be crit, err, warn, notice, diag, info, trace or debug.
# Multiple subsystem@priority may be specified, separated by a comma.
#
#Debug sudo /var/log/sudo_debug all@debug
#Debug sudoers.so /var/log/sudoers_debug all@debug
sudo_plugin(5), sudoers(5), sudo(8)
See the HISTORY file in the sudo distribution
(https://www.sudo.ws/history.html) for a brief history of sudo.
Many people have worked on sudo over the years; this version
consists of code written primarily by:
Todd C. Miller
See the CONTRIBUTORS file in the sudo distribution
(https://www.sudo.ws/contributors.html) for an exhaustive list of
people who have contributed to sudo.
If you feel you have found a bug in sudo, please submit a bug
report at https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/
Limited free support is available via the sudo-users mailing list,
see https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users to subscribe or
search the archives.
sudo is provided “AS IS” and any express or implied warranties,
including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are
disclaimed. See the LICENSE file distributed with sudo or
https://www.sudo.ws/license.html for complete details.
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project. Information about the project can be found at
https://www.sudo.ws/. If you have a bug report for this manual
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