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use runuser instead of su to run rake as the foreman user #9839

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@evgeni evgeni commented Sep 21, 2023

foreman-rake is designed to be run as root (and switch to foreman) or by foreman directly. any other user can't use it as it is installed in sbin and the foreman user has no password set, making switching users as non root impossible, but su will still try it:

[nobody@foreman /]$ su foreman -s /bin/bash -c id
Password:
[nobody@foreman /]$ foreman-rake console
Password:

runuser is designed to be used in scripts and refuses to work as non root:

[nobody@foreman /]$ runuser foreman -s /bin/bash -c id
runuser: may not be used by non-root users
[nobody@foreman /]$ foreman-rake console
runuser: may not be used by non-root users

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Seems to work well. Do we have a redmine for this?

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evgeni commented Sep 21, 2023

Seems to work well. Do we have a redmine for this?

I could create one ;-)

Yes

foreman-rake is designed to be run as root (and switch to foreman) or by
foreman directly. any other user can't use it as it is installed in sbin
and the foreman user has no password set, making switching users as non
root impossible, but su will still try it:

    [nobody@foreman /]$ su foreman -s /bin/bash -c id
    Password:
    [nobody@foreman /]$ foreman-rake console
    Password:

runuser is designed to be used in scripts and refuses to work as non
root:

    [nobody@foreman /]$ runuser foreman -s /bin/bash -c id
    runuser: may not be used by non-root users
    [nobody@foreman /]$ foreman-rake console
    runuser: may not be used by non-root users
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evgeni commented Sep 21, 2023

[test unit]

@evgeni evgeni merged commit 3636aec into theforeman:develop Sep 21, 2023
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