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Managing sudo using Active Directory: is it possible to use NOPASSWD: or other tags?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c

Research direction

The issue describes sudo permissions managed through Active Directory and asks whether rule tags such as NOPASSWD can be specified in the AD schema. Start by reading the project documentation and code paths for Active Directory sudo rules and supported rule attributes. Done means establishing whether tags are supported and, if not, what change would enable them; the issue gives no file or test names to start from.

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Description

So I have configured Active Directory to manage sudo permissions on Linux hosts. The domain users can successfully logon and use sudo. However, in order to move away from password use and only use ssh-keys, I'll need to use the NOPASSWD: tag. I'm not seeing an attribute in the AD schema where I can specify tags. Is there a way to do that?

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