Check out saz/sudo (https://forge.puppet.com/saz/sudo). By default it
manages /etc/sudoers.d with `sudo::conf` instances and purges
/etc/sudoers.d of anything it didn't create, but if something else is
managing files in that directory you can set `sudo::purge: false` so they
can share nicely.


Rob Nelson
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:10 PM, James Perry <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm at an impasse.
>
> Due to changing requirements we have different local service accounts
> being added 'ad hoc' to various servers. Each needs their own set of
> sudoers lines.  When moving from Puppet 0.25 to Puppet 4 I had to kludge
> something together in a hurry. It works, but not well.
>
> I looked at defining classes for each set of lines that needed to be added
> and have it create a separate file for that class in /etc/sudoers.d/.  Due
> to SOX compliance we can't have any sudo permissions defined for accounts
> not on the server. So if i remove the class that creates
> /etc/sudoers.d/foo, the /etc/sudoers.d/foo file still remains. If I try to
> clean out all non-needed files, I either have to do:
>   1. Remove all files, but that causes Puppet to always recreate the files.
>   2. Create some way to remove a file based on knowing if the class is
> defined for this node, which forum posts show as problematic.
>
> I did see the Puppet-concat module, but haven't had the time to really dig
> into it to see if the would solve the problem. In this case it would be
> modifying / creating the main sudoers file, which is fine.
>
> Another option would be to use something like file_line to make sure a
> specific line(s) are in the sudoers file after the initial template creates
> our default /etc/sudoers file.
>
> Has anyone solved this type of issue?  I know there are ways to do it, but
> I really want to do it right and forget it. Wen we need a new sudo setup
> for a new account, we create the required class and the rest is "magic"
> based on the classes defined for that node.
>
> In the mean time I will be doing more deep Google dives and serious RTFM.
>
> Thanks!
>
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