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Special Forums Cybersecurity sudo question Post 302187009 by melias on Friday 18th of April 2008 05:39:54 PM
Old 04-18-2008
Maybe I haven't defined by question correctly.

What I want to stop is a user elevating to root via the following:

sudo bash.

This is easy enough to do via a sudoers restriction on running the command.

Now, I have a group of admins that need to be able to run most system commands. However, I want to be able to log all commands they run as root, for auditing purposes. So I use sudo.log.

The user bypasses sudo logging if they execute su or a shell via sudo. As mentioned above, I can prevent this by explicitly denying the commands in sudoers file.

However, if the user (or admin) copies a shell (say /usr/bin/bash, but could be any shell) to another location/name (could be any location or name), what's to stop them now executing this renamed and relocated shell command via sudo, which in effect, gives them root access without sudo.log logging.

Please don't get hung up on homedir being the location - it could be any directory with write and execute permissions.

So, is it possible on your system for a user to copy(rename) a shell command to another location and then execute it via sudo?
If not, why not?

This is what I want to prevent.
 

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csp_helper(1)							  USER COMMANDS 						     csp_helper(1)

  NAME
      csp_helper - A collection of caspar helper scripts

  SYNOPSIS
      csp_install dir (directory) file (file)

      csp_mkdircp dir (directory) file (file)

      csp_scp_keep_mode h ([user@]host) dir (directory) file (file)

      csp_sucp h ([user@]host) dir (directory) file (file)

  DESCRIPTION
      The  scripts  csp_install,  csp_mkdircp,	csp_scp_keep_mode  and csp_sucp are helpers for caspar(7). These scripts typically are not invoked
      directly, but via a Makefile which uses caspar. See the notes on	csp_PUSH  in  caspar(7)  for  information  on  how  to	link  csp_install,
      csp_scp_keep_mode and csp_sucp to caspar.

  install DESCRIPTION
      csp_install creates the required directory (if needed) and installs the file, preserving timestamps. It uses install(1).

  install EXAMPLES
       csp_INSTALL_OPTIONS='--owner=www-data --group=www-data' 
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      csp_install honors csp_INSTALL_OPTIONS and csp_INSTALL_MODE (default is u=rw,go=r).

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      csp_mkdircp calls mkdir(1) and cp(1).

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      csp_scp_keep_mode  uses  ssh to copy a file to a remote host, keeping its file permission mode. The trick used is a combination of mktemp(1)
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  sucp DESCRIPTION
      csp_sucp calls cat(1) from within sudo(1) from within ssh(1). This allows one to copy files to accounts on hosts one can only reach by call-
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  AUTHOR
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